LB 2529 

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1914 
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ADVANCE SHEETS 



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SCHOOL LAWS 



ENACTED BY THE 80th GENERAL 

ASSEMBLY AT ITS EXTRAORDINARY 

SESSION, 1914 



ISSUED BY THE 



SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION 



FRANK W. MILLER 

SUPERINTENDENT 



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(House Joint Resolution No. 9.) 

To authorize the printing and publication in pamphlet form of 
the acts passed at this session of the General Assembly with 
regard to the school system of Ohio. 

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
That the superintendent of public instruction be and he 
is hereby directed and authorized to cause to be printed in 
pamphlet form for free distribution thirty-live thousand 
copies of all the school laws passed at this session of the 
General Assembly. Of which one hundred copies shall be 
sent to each member" of the General Assembly, one hundred 
and fifty copies to eac.h county auditor, the balance to be 
distributed by the superintendent of public instruction. 



(Senate Bill No. 7.) 

To amend sections 7753 and 7754 of the General Code and to add 
supplementary sections 7753-1, 7753-2 and 7753-3 relating to 
the inspection of High Schools. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That sections 7753 and 7754 be amended 
and supplementary sections 7753-1, 7753-2 and 7753-3 of 
the General Code be added to read as follows : 

Sec. 7753. The superintendent of public instruction Appointment 
shall appoint two competent public high school inspectors, of kigh school 
who are connected with no college or university, two pub- '"^p^*^'°''^- 
lie high school inspectors selected from the faculty staff 
of the college of education of Ohio State University, and 
one public high school inspector from each of the faculties 
of the Ohio normal colleges at Oxford and Athens and the 
Ohio normal schools at Kent and Bowling Green. The in- 
spectors appointed by the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion from the faculty staffs of the college of education, 
normal colleges and normal schools shall be nominated by 
the presidents of their respective institutions. The super- 
intendent of public instruction may also appoint when 
necessary, competent instructors from any public or private 
school to inspect such high schools . as the superintendent 
may direct. 

Sec. 7753-1. The two public high school inspectors Duties of high 
connected with no college or university shall give their school inspec- 
entire time to the examination and inspection of public 
high schools in the state. The inspectors chosen from the 
faculty staff's shall devote a part of their time, not more 
than half, to public high school inspection. The superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall require all part time 
inspectors to inspect schools the first half of the year be- 



Meeting for 
conference and 
direction ;_ 
classification. 



Compensation 
and expenses. 



Reports of 
inspection. 



ginning August i, or the last half of the year beginning 
February i, or such other times as may be agreed by the 
superintendent of public instruction and the president of 
the institution nominating such inspector. The public high 
school inspectors shall confer with various authorities and 
assist the superintendent of public instruction in the classi- 
fication of schools and in such other ways as he may direct. 

Sec. 7753-2. All public high school inspectors shall 
meet in Columbus at the call of the superintendent of public 
instruction for the purpose of conference and direction. 
They shall recommend to the superintendent of public in- 
struction standards and official ratings for all the public 
high schools of the state, and the decision of the superin- 
tendent of public instruction as to the classification of such 
schools shall be final, but no public high school shall be 
recommended for rating except on a majority vote of the 
inspectors at a meeting called by -the superintendent of 
public instruction who shall be ex-officio chairman of their 
meetings. 

Sec. 7753-3. The high school inspectors giving full 
time shall be paid an annual salary, the amount of which 
shall be fixed by the superintedent of public instruction 
with the approval of the governor and shall each rececive 
his actual and necessary traveling expenses not to exceed 
eight hundred dollars per year. The half time inspectors 
shall receive a compensation, the amount of which shall be 
fixed by the superintendent of public instruction, and shah 
also receive their necessary and actual traveling expenses 
not to exceed four hundred dollars each, for each half year. 
Both compensation and expenses shall be paid upon vouch- 
ers signed by the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 7754. All public high school inspectors appointed 
by the superintendent of public instruction shall furnish 
reports of all inspection of public high schools made by 
them. The reports shall be in such form as the superin- 
tendent of public instruction may prescribe. Eight copies 
of the report of each inspection shall be made. Two copies 
shall be placed on file in the office of the superintendent 
of public instruction, one copy furnished to each of the 
institutions fom which the half time inspectors are chosen, 
and one copy larnished to the school inspected. 

Section 2. That original sections 7753 and 7754 of 
the General Code be and the same are hereby repealed. 



(Senate Bill No. 8.) 

To amend sections 7761-1, 7761-2, 7761-3, 7761-4, 7761-5 and 7761-6, 
and to repeal sections 7761-7 and 7761-8 of the General Code, 
relating to the teaching of agriculture in the public schools of 
Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That sections 7761-7 and 7761-8 of the 

General Code be repealed and that sections 7761-1, 7761-2, 



7761-3, 7761-4, 7761-5 and 7761-6 be amended to read as 
follows : 

Sec. 7761-1. Agriculture shall hereafter be taught in 
all the common schools of all village and rural scchool dis- 
tricts of the state of Ohio, which are supported in whole or 
in part by the state, and may be taught in city school dis- 
tricts at the option of the board of education. 

Sec. 7761-2. The state shall be divided into four agri- 
cultural districts to be mapped out, located and defined by 
the superintendent of public instruction. Such agricultural 
districts shall be made up and composed of counties which 
are contiguous and no county shall be divided in the laying 
out of such districts. 

Sec. 7761-3. The superintendent of public instruction 
shall superintend all agricultural education in the common 
schools of Ohio and shall appoint in each agricultural dis- 
trict, so mapped out and designated by him, a person who 
shall possess all the qualifications of a county superintend- 
ent, to be known as a district supervisor of agricultural 
education. 

Sec. 7761-4. It shall be the duty of each district super- 
visor : 

(i) To co-operate with boards of education in map- 
ping out courses of study in agriculture and related 
subjects. 

(2) To visit each county teachers' institute in his 
district and give public instruction in the teaching of 
agriculture and related subjects. 

(3) To co-operate with the State Agricultural Com- 
mission lecturing at the Farmers' Institutes and farmers' 
schools on agricultural subjects as they may be applied to 
the schools in the community. 

(4) To encourage county agricultural societies in each 
county of his district in establishing school children's agri- 
cultural exhibits at each annual county fair. 

(5) To assist the superintendent of public instruction 
in the standardization of the public schools. 

(6) To make such reports to the superintendent of 
public instruction as the superintendent may direct on forms 
prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 7761-5. Each district supervisor of agricultural 
education shall receive an annual salary, the amount of 
which shall be fixed by the superintendent of public in- 
struction, and his necessary traveling expenses not to ex- 
ceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum. 

Sec. ^J^x-d. Any district supervisor of agricultural 
education may be dismissed from office by the superintend- 
ent of public instruction for incompetency, immorality, or 
neglect of duty or who is or becomes interested financially 
or otherwise with any book publishing or book selling com- 
pany, firm or corporation. 

Section 2. That original sections 7761-1, 7761-2, 
7761-3, 7761-4, 7761-5, 7761-6, 7761-7 and 7761-8 of the 
General Code be and the same are hereby repealed. 



Agriculture 
shall be taught 
in schools. 



Agricultural 
districts, how 
composed and 
defined. 



District super- 
visors; ap- 
pointment of 
and duties. 



Salary and 

traveling 

expenses. 



Dismisal of 
district super- 
visors. 



Repeals. 



Admission to 
profesional 
school, college 

or university. 



Tuition of 
pupils eligible 
to high school 
shall be paid 
by district 
board. 



Certificate to 
pupils eligible 
to high sckool. 



Tuition of 
graduates of 
third grade 
high school. 



(Senate Bill No. 9.) 

To amend sections 7658, 7747, 7748 and 7749 of the General Code 
and to supplement section 7655 by the enactment of additional 
sections 7655-1, 7655-2, 7655-3, 7655-4, 7655-5, 7655-6, 7655-7 and 
7655-8 of the General Code relating to the standardization of 
schools. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That sections 7658, 7747, 7748 and 7749 of 
the General Code be amended and section 7655 be supple- 
mented by additional sections 7655-1, 7655-2, 7655-3, 7655-4, 
7655-5, 7655-6, 7655-7 and 7655-8 to read as follows : 

Sec. 7658. A holder of a diploma from a high school 
of the first grade may be admitted without examination to 
any college of law, medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy in this 
state, when the holder thereof has completed such courses in 
science and language as are prescribed by the legally con- 
stituted authorities regulating the entrance requirements of 
such college ; except such institutions privately endowed 
which may require a higher standard for entrance examina- 
tions than herein is provided. After September i, 191 5, 
the holder of a diploma from a first grade high school shall 
be entitled to admission without examination to the academic 
department of any college or university which is supported 
wholly or in part by the state. 

Sec. 7747. The tuition of pupils who are eligible for 
admission to high school and who reside in rural districts, 
in which no high school is maintained, shall be paid by the 
board of education of the school district in which they have 
legal school residence, such tuition to be computed by the 
month. An attendance any part of the month shall create 
a liability for the entire month. No more shall be charged 
per capita than the amount ascertained by dividing the 
total expenses of conducting the high school of the district 
attended, exclusive of permanent improvements and repair, 
by the average monthly enrollment in the high school of 
the district. The district superintendent shall certify to 
the county superintendent each year the names of all pupils 
in his supervision district who have completed the elemen- 
tary school work, and are eligible for admission to high 
school. The county superintendent shall thereupon issue 
to each pupil so certified a certificate of promotion which 
shall entitle the holder to admission to any high school. 
Such certificates shall be furnished by the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

Sec. 7748. A board of education providing a third 
grade high school as defined by law shall be required to 
pay the tuition of graduates from such school residing 
in the district at any first grade high school for two years, 
or at a second grade high school for one year. Should 
pupils residing in the district prefer not to attend such third 
grade high school the board of education of such district 
shall be required to pay the tuition of such pupils at any 
first grade high school for four years, or at any second 



grade high school for three years and a first grade high 
school for one year. Such a board providing a second grade 
high school as defined by law shall pay the tuition of grad- 
uates residing in the district at any first grade high school 
for one year; except that, a board maintaining a second or 
third grade high school is not required to pay such tuition 
when the maximum levy permitted by law for such dis- 
trict has been reached and all the funds so raised are 
necessary for the support of the schools of such district. 
No board of education is required to pay the tuition of any 
pupil for more than four school years ; except that it must 
pay the tuition of all successful applicants, who have com- 
plied with the further provisions hereof, residing more than 
four miles by the most direct route of public travel, from the 
high school provided by the board, when such applicants 
attend a nearer high school, or in lieu of paying such tuition 
the board of education maintaining a high school may pay 
for the transportation of the pupils living more than four 
miles from the said high school, maintained by the said 
board of education to said high school. Where more than 
one high school is maintained, by agreement of the board 
and parent or guardian, pupils may attend either and their 
transportation shall be so paid. A pupil living in a village 
or city district who has completed the elementary school 
course and whose legal residence has been transferred to a 
rural district in this state before he begins or completes a 
high school course, shall be entitled to all the rights and 
privileges of a resident pupil of such district. 

Sec. 7749. When the elementary schools of any rural 
school district in which a high school is maintained are cen- 
tralized and transportation of pupils is provided, all pupils 
resident of the rural school district who have completed 
the elementary school work shall be entitled to transpor- 
tation to the high school of such rural district, and the 
board of education thereof shall be exempt from the pay- 
ment of the tuition of such pupils in any other high school 
for such a portion of four years as the course of study in 
the high school maintained by the board of education 
includes. 

Sec. 7655-1. Every one room school in any rural school 
district where the school house and outbuildings are kept 
in proper condition and repair, buildings and yard clean, 
and separate screened privies are maintained for each sex, 
shall be considered a rural elementary school of the sec- 
ond grade. 

Sec. 7655-2. Each one room school in any rural school 
district which shall fulfill the requirements of this section 
shall be considered a rural elementary school of the first 
grade. Such requirements are as follows : 
(a) Clean buildings and yard. 
Building in good repair. 
Separate screened privies for each sex or inside 



Exceptiom. 



Provision foi 
transportation 
of pupils. 



Effect of re- 
moval from 
village or cit> 
district. 



Transportatio» 
to high school 



What consti- 
tutes elemc«- 
tary rural 
school of 
second grade. 



What consti- 
tutes rural 
elementary 
school of firsi 
grade. 



(b) 
(c) 
toilets. 

(d) 



Maps of Ohio and United States. 



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Wkat consti- 
tutes consoli- 
dated elemen- 
tary school of 
•econd grade. 



What consti- 
tutes consoli- 
dated elemen- 
tary school of 
first grade. 



(e) Library of not less than 50 volumes. 

(f) 100 square feet of slate or composition black- 
board. The lower margin of not less than twelve lineal 
feet of which board, shall be within two feet of the floor. 

(g) A system of heating with ventilation — minimum 
a jacketed stove. 

(h) Buildings hereafter constructed to have in con- 
nection with them not less than one acre of land for or- 
ganized play. 

(i) Teacher with at least a three-year certificate. 

(j,) Agricultural apparatus to a value of at least 
fifteen dollars. 

Sec. 7655-3. Each consolidated school in any village 
or rural school district which shall fulfill the requirements 
of this section shall be considered a consolidated elementary 
school of the second grade. Such requirements are as 
follows : 



Clean building and yard. 
Building in good repair. 
.Separate screened privies for each sex or inside 



(a) 

(b) 

(0 
toilets. 

(d) Library of not less than lOO volumes. 

(e) 100 square feet of slate or composition black- 
board. The lower margin of not less than twelve lineal feet 
of which board, shall be within two feet of the floor. 

(f ) A system of heating with ventilation — minimum a 
jacketed stove. 

(g) Buildings hereafter constructed to have at least 
two acres of land for organized play and agricultural 
experiment. 

(h) At least two room.s and two teachers on full 
time one of whom must have at least a three-year certificate. 

(i) One teacher to be employed for ten months each 
year giving part of his or her time during the school year 
to the teaching of agriculture or domestic science or both 
and during part of vacation supervise agricultural work of 
boys and domestic art work of the girls. 

(j) Agricultural apparatus to the value of at least 
twenty-five dollars. 

(k) A case of not less than six maps including a map 
of Ohio. 

Sec. 7655-4. Each consolidated school in any village 
or rural school district which shall fulfill the requirements 
of this section shall be considered a consolidated elementary 
school of the first grade. Such requirements are as follows : 
(a) Clean building and yard. 
Building in good repair. 
Separate screened privies for each sex, or inside 



(b) 

. (0 
toilets. 

(d) 
of Ohio. 

(e) 



A case of not less than six maps including a map 
Library of not less than 150 volumes. 



(f) 100 square feet of slate or composition black- 
board. The lower margin of not less than twelve lineal 
feet of which board, shall be within two feet of the floor. 

(f) A system of heating with ventilation — minimum 
a jacketed stove. 

(h) Buildings hereafter constructed to have at least 
three acres of land in connection with each school one 
for agriculture and school garden purposes. 

(i) Three rooms and three teachers or more on full 
time, one teacher to have at least a three-year certificate. 

(j) A course in domestic science. 

(k) Two teachers to be employed for ten months each, 
one teaching agriculture during the school term and to 
supervise agriculture during part of the vacation. The 
other to teach domestic science during the school term and 
to supervise domestic science instruction during part of 
the vacation. 

(1) Agricultural and domestic science apparatus to 
the value of at least one hundred dollars. 

Sec. 7655-5. Each school district in which such schools Additional 
are located, shall receive from the state treasury the sum fclo^ors'^of"'^ 
of twenty-five dollars per annum for each one room rural grade, 
school of the first grade, fifty dollars per annum for each 
consolidated school of the second grade, and one hundred 
dollars per annum for each consolidated school of the first 
grade. Such sums shall be in addition to the regular ap- 
portionment of the common school funds and the amounts 
paid by the state as aid to weak districts.] Should the 
appropriation for any year be insufficient to meet these 
payments the amount shall be pro rated between the various 
school districts. 

Sec. 7655-6. Any school district which desires to re- How state aid 
ceive state aid as provided in section 7655-=; shall make obtained for 
application therefor to the county superintendent on blanks grade, 
furnished by the superintendent of public instruction speci- 
fying the number and kinds of schools in such district en- 
titled to such aid. If the county superintendent upon actual 
inspection shall approve such application he shall endorse 
the same and forward it to the superintendent of public 
instruction for final approval. When such application has 
been approved by the superintendent of public instruction, 
the state auditor shall issue his warrant on the state treas- 
urer in favor of the treasurer of the school district for the 
amount so approved. 

Sec. 7655-7. After September first, 191 5, the holder Admission to 
of a certificate of graduation from any one room rural '"g^ school 

1 1 r 1 r 1 r i • i i 111 "O'" rural 

school 01 the first grade or of any consolidated rural school school of first 
which has been recognized shall be entitled to admission to ^""^ *' 
any high school without examination. Graduates of any 
other elementary school shall be admitted to any high school 
without examination on the certificate of the district super- 
intendent. 



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Metal placard Sec. 7655-8. The Superintendent of public instruction 

of°rurafsf^oi! shall fumish the boards of education in the village and 

rural school districts metal placards which shall be placed 

on the various school buildings showing the grades of such 

schools. 

Section 2. That original sections 7658, 7747, 7748, 
and 7749 and sections 7742, 7743, 7744, 7745 and 7746 of the 
General Code be and the same are hereby repealed. 



(Senate Bill No. 10.) 

To amend section 352, to add supplementary sections 352-1 and 
853-1, and to repeal sections 7588, 7589, 7590, 7665, 7717, 7719, 
7732, 7741, 7863, 7864, 4693, 4694, 4695, and 4697 of the General 
Code relating to the office and duties of the superintendent of 
public instruction. 

Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 

Section i. That section 352 be amended and that 
supplementary sections 352-1 and 353-1 of the General Code 
be added to read as follows : . 
Superintendent ^^^^ 35^- There shall be a superintendent of public 

of public in- instruction, who shall be appointed by the Governor. He 
appointment shall hold his office for a term of four years, and until 
and term. j^jg successor is appointed and qualified, such term com- 
mencing on the second Monday of July. He shall have an 
office in or near the state house, in which the books and 
papers pertaining to his office shall be kept. 
Who eligible as Sec. 352-1. No One who is interested financially or 

superintendent, otherwise in any book 'publishing or book selling company, 
firm or corporation, shall be eligible to appointment as 
superintendent of public instruction. If any superin- 
tendent of public instruction becomes interested financially 
or otherwise, in any book publishing or book selling com- 
pany, firm or corporation said superintendent of public in- 
struction shall forthwith be removed from office by the 
governor. 
Employment Scc. 353-1. The superintendent of public instruction 

may employ such clerks, stenographers and assistants as 
will enable him to properly care for the duties of his office. 
The compensation of such appointees shall be fixed by the 
superintendent of public instruction, with the approval of 
the governor. 

(Senate Bill No. 11.) 

To amend sections 9934, 9935, 9936, 9937, 9939,_ 9941 and 9942 and 
to supplement said section 9937 by enacting a supplemental 
section to be known as section 9937-a and to repeal sections 
9938, 9940, 9944, 9945, 9946 and 9947 of the General Code re- 
lating to the organization and government of universities .and 
colleges, and the election of trustees therein. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That sections 9934, 9935, 9936, 9937, 

9939'. 9941 and 9942 of the General Code be amended and 



of clerks and 
assistants, 



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that section 9937 be supplemented by the enactment of sec- 
tion 9937-a to read as follows : 

Sec. 9934. The board of trustees of any university or 
college heretofore incorporated, or which may hereafter be 
incorporated, and operating under the patronage of one or 
more conferences or other religious bodies of any religious 
denomination, may accept the provisions of this and suc- 
ceedings sections 9935, 9936, 9937, 9937-a, 9939, 9941, 9942 
and 9943 by resolution adopted at any regular meeting of 
the. board, and entered upon the record of its proceedings. 
After such acceptance the board in all respects shall be or- 
ganized, constituted, regulated and perpetuated, pursuant 
to and under said provisions. No right acquired by any 
such board, university or college, under its charter or any 
law of this state, shall in any way be afifected thereby. 

Sec. 9935- The president of such university or college 
shall, ex officio, be a trustee after the acceptance of the pro- 
visions of this act by any such university or college. At 
any meeting of such board after the passage of this act, 
such board shall divide its number, not including such 
president, into classes, making one class for each confer- 
ence or religious body at the time patronizing such uni- 
versity or college, and one class for the alumni of such 
university or college and one class of trustees at large. No 
class shall have less than five members nor more than ten. 
Each conference or other religious body patronizing such 
university shall have the same number of trustees. The 
Board of Trustees of such university or college may desig- 
nate the number of trustees to be assigned to the Alumni 
Association and to the class of trustees at large, but the 
combined number of trustees apportioned to said patroniz- 
ing conferences or other religious bodies shall constitute 
not less than three-fifths of the entire board, not including 
the president. 

Sec. 9936. The regular term of office of such trustees 
shall be five years, but upon the original formation of 
classes of trustees one or more trustees may be elected for 
one, two, three and four-year terms until the regular order 
can be established. The term of office of an equal number 
of trustees in each class, as near as may be, shall expire 
each year. \'acancies which occur in any class of trustees 
in any manner whatsoever except by expiration of time 
shall be filled only for the remainder of the term, but the 
term of office of a trustee shall not expire during any meet- 
ing of the board wdiich does not continue for more than 
two weeks. 

Sec. 9937. If the number of conferences or other re- 
ligious bodies patronizing such university or college shall 
at any time be increased or decreased, the board of trustees 
of such university or college may re-classify said trustees 
of said bodies by an equal reduction of the number in each 
such class when a new conference or other religious body 
becomes a patronizing body and by an equal increase of 
the number in each such class when a conference or other 



How certain 
boards may be 
constituted 
and goveri :ed. 



Trustees to be 
divided into 
classes. 



Term of office 
of trustees; 
vacancies. 



When board 

may be in- 
creased or de- 
creased. 



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The alumni 
association 
may elect one- 
fifth of board. 



How a con- 
ference may 
become a 
patron. 



When right of 
representation 
shall cease. 



religious body ceaset ico be a patronizing body. Whenever, 
by reason of a change in the number of patronizing confer- 
ences or religious bodies, it becomes necessary to re-classify 
the trustees in said board, the board (a lawful quorum be- 
ing present) shall by appropriate resolution designate the 
number of trustees apportioned to each class and certify 
such apportionment to each patronizing conference or other 
religious body and to such Alumni Association, and all va- 
cancies in such classes thereafter shall be filled in accord- 
ance with such apportionment. 

Sec. 9937-a, The alumni composing the Alumni As- 
sociation of such university or college may elect as mem- 
bers of the Board of Trustees of such university or college, 
as many members of such Alumni Association as there are 
members of the class of Alumni Trustees assigned or ap- 
portioned to said Alumni Association by the Board of 
frustees of such university or college, this class to con- 
stitute not less than one-fifth of the entire Board, not in- 
cluding the President. This election shall be held under 
such regulations as the Alumni Association may prescribe 
and the result shall be certified by the proper officials of 
the Alumni Association to the - Board of Trustees, which 
result shall be entered upon the records of said Board. 
Such Board of Trustees composed of Alumni Trustees and 
Trustees elected by patronizing conferences or other re- 
ligious bodies, as provided in Section 9935 to Section 
9937-a inclusive, may increase its own numbers by the elec- 
tion of a class of Trustees at large, the number of which 
class shall be fixed by said Board of Trustees, under the 
limitations fixed by Sections 9935 and 9937-a. 

Sec. 9939. Any conference or other religious body 
not patronizing any particular university or college may 
become a patronizing body upon invitation of the Board 
of Trustees of such university or college by a majority vote 
of the whole board. The intention to become such pat- 
ronizing body shall be evidenced by the adoption of an ap- 
propriate resolution and certification of the same to the 
Board of Trustees of such university or college, and such 
certified resolution shall be entered upon the minutes of 
the Board of Trustees of such university or college thereby 
completing the right of such conference or religious body 
to act as a patronizing body. 

Sec. 9941. If a conference or other religious body 
patronizing a university or college and having a representa- 
tion in its board of trustees, ceases to exist, or ceases to 
patronize such university or college, the right of such con- 
ference or other religious body to such representation shall 
cease, and the Board of Trustees of such university or 
college shall apportion or distribute the number of trustees 
in such class to the remaining patronizing conferences or 
other religious bodies in order to maintain, as nearly as may 
be, the estabhshed number of trustees and equality of rep- 
resentation from each patronizing body. 



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Sec. 9942. Before a conference or other relieious a .• 
body represented in the Board of Trustees of such uni- beTake""? 
versity or college shall cease to be represented in said Board ''°''''- 
the Board of Trustees shall declare and enter in the record 
of Its proceedings that the conditions and contingencies 
terminating such representation have taken place 

Oa./lZTnr.\ ^''^^ '^'"^ °'^^"'^^ '''^^°"' 9934, 9935, Repeals. 

9936, 9937, 9938, 9939, 9940, 994i, 9942, 9944, 9945, 9^46 
and 9947 of the General Code, be and the same are hereby 
repealed. -^ 



(Sub. Senate Bill No. 13.) 

To amend section 12600-45 of the General Code relating to the 
construction of school buildings. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That section 12600-45 of the General Code 
be supplemented by the addition of a supplementary section 
to be known as section 12600-4^3. to read as follows: 

Sec. i26oo-45a. None of the provisions of section Addition of 
12000-45 of the General Code shall prevent the construction school buiidinj 
of an addition to any school building two stories high or pro^^ls^ons^Jf 
less; such addition to be of the same construction and ^^^■^^• 
material as the original building whether it be of fireproof, 
composite or frame construction. Not more than one addi- 
tion shall ever be added to any school building under the 
provisions of this section and the lower floor space of such 
addition shall in no case exceed, twelve hundred square 
feet. 



(Senate Bill No. 19.) 

To amend section 7766 of the General Code, relative to the age 
hmit of females who are entitled to receive schooling certifi- 
cates. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That section 7766 of the General Code be 
amended to read as follows : 

Sec. 7766. An age and schooling certificate shall be 
approved only by the superintendent of schools, or by a 
person authorized by him, or, in case of vacancy in the 
office of superinteiulent, by the clerk of the board of edu- 
cation, upon satisfactory proof that such child, if a male 
IS over fifteen years of age or, if a female, is over sixteen 
years of age and that such child has been examined and 
passed a satisfactory sixth-grade test, if a male, a seventh- 
grade test, if a female, in the studies enumerated in section 
seventy-seven hundred and sixty-two. provided, that resi- 
dents of other states who ^vork in Ohio must qualify as 
aforesaid with the proper school authority in the school dis- 
trict in which the establishment is located, as a condition of 
employment or service, and that the employment contem- 
plated by the clr.ld is not prohibited by any law regulatincr 



Approval of 
certificate. 



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Juvenile ex- 
aminer; duties 
and compensa- 
tion. 



Form of 
certificate. 



List_ to whom 
certificates is- 
sued furnished 
industrial corn- 



Child shall be 
placed in 
school who 
ceases to work. 



the employment of such children. Every such age and 
schooling certificate shall be signed in the presence of the 
officer issuing the same by the child in whose name it is 
issued. 

In order to ascertain whether applicants for such cer- 
tificates have satisfactorily completed the studies herein 
prescribed as a condition for the issuance of said certificates 
the board of education of each city school district may 
appoint a juvenile examiner who shall receive such compen- 
sation as may be fixed by the board of education. No 
such child residing in a city shall be granted such certificate 
unless such juvenile examiner shall have previously certified 
that he has examined such child and that he has passed to 
his satisfaction the grade test as provided by this section ; 
provided, further, that if a child in the opinion of said 
juvenile examiner is below the normal in mental develop- 
ment so that he cannot with due industry pass such test, 
and if the school record shows that such child is below the 
normal in development, such fact may be certified to by said 
examiner, and the superintendent or person authorized by 
him may at his discretion grant such child such age and 
schooling certificate. Provided, that if said examiner is 
satisfied that the standard of any school is sufficiently high, 
he may accept the records thereof as showing that such child 
has passed such test without further examination. 

The age and schooling certificate must be formulated 
by the superintendent of public instruction, and furnished 
in blank by the clerk of the board of education. It shall 
show the date of its issue. A record giving all the facts 
contained on every certificate issued shall be kept on file 
in the office issuing the same, and also a record of the names 
and addresses of the children to whom certificates have 
been refused, together with the names of the schools which 
such children should attend and the reasons for refusal. 

The superintendent of schools or other persons author- 
ied to issue employment certificates shall transmit between 
the first and tenth days of each month, to the office of the 
industrial commission, upon blanks to be furnished by it, 
a list of the names of the children to whom certificates have 
been issued, returned or refused. Such lists shall give the 
name and address of the prospective employer and the 
nature of the occupation the child intends to engage in. 

Any child between fifteen and sixteen years of age, 
who shall cease to work for any cause whatever, shall report 
the fact and cause at once to the superintendent of schools ; 
or to a person authoried by him or, in case there is a vacancy 
in the office of superintendent, to the clerk of the board of 
education; said child shall be required to return to_school 
within two weeks, provided other employment is not secured 
within such time ; provided that, should a child in the opin- 
ion of the superintendent or person acting in his stead, lose 
his employment by reason of persistent, wilful misconduct 
or continuous inconstancy, he may be placed in school until 
the close of the current school year. 



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The superintendent of schools or the person authorized 
by him to issue age and schooHng certificates, shall not issue 
such certificates until he has received, examined, approved 
and filed the following papers duly executed. 

(i) The written pledge or promise of the person, 
partnership, or corporation to legally employ the child, 
also the written agreement to return to the superintendent 
of schools or to the person authorized by him to issue such 
certificates, the age and schooling certificate of the child 
within two days from the date of the child's withdrawal 
or dismissal from the service of the person, partnership, or 
corporation, giving the reason for such withdrawal or 
dismissal, 

(2) The school record of such child, properly filled 
out and signed by the principal or other person in charge 
of the school which such child last attended, giving the 
name, age, address, standing in studies enumerated in sec- 
tion seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and the 
number of weeks attendance in school during the school 
year previous to applying for such school record, and 
general conduct. 

(3) As evidence of age (a) a passport or duly attested 
transcript of a passport, filed with a register of passports 
or other officer charged with the duty of registering pass- 
ports at the several ports of entry to the United States; 
or duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or bap- 
tism or other religious record, showing the date and place 
of birth of such child; or (b) a duly attested transcript 
of the birth certificate filed according to law with a registrar 
of vital statistics, or other officer charged with the duty 
of recording births, shall be conclusive evidence of the age 
of the child, (c) In case none of the above proofs of 
age can be produced, other documentary evidence of age 
which shall appear to be satisfactory to the officer issuing 
the certificate, (aside from the school record of such child 
or the affidavit of parent, guardian or custodian), may be 
accepted in lieu thereof. In such case a school census or 
enurneration record, duly attested, may be used as proof of 
age in the discretion of the officer issuing the certificate, 
(d) In case no documentary proof of age of any kind can 
be produced, the officer issuing the certificate may receive 
and file an application signed by the parent, guardian or 
custodian of the child for a physician's certificate. Such 
application shall contain the name, alleged age, place and 
date of birth, and present residence of the child, together 
with such further facts as may be of assistance in deter- 
mining the age of such child, and shall contain a statement 
certifying that the parent, guardian or custodian signing 
such application is unable to produce any of the document- 
ary proofs of age specified in the preceding subdivisions of 
this section. If the superintendent or officer authorized bv 
him to issue such certificate, is satisfied that a reasonable ef- 
fort to procure such documentary proof has been made, the 
certificate of the school physician, or, if there be none, of a 



Papers to be 
approved and 
filed before 
certificate 



Pledge of 
employer. 



School record. 



Birth 
certificate. 



.•Application in 
case no docn- 
nientary proof. 



i6 



Health 
certificate. 



Special vaca- 
tion certificate. 



piiysician ciiii-»iu_yca for the purpose by the Doaiu ^i cuuca- 
tion that such physician has made a physical examination of 
such child and is satisfied that he is more than fifteen years 
of age, if a male, or that she is more than sixteen years of 
age, if a female, shall be accepted as sufficient proof of the 
age of such child for the purpose of this act : 

(4) A certificate from the school physician or if there 
should be none, of the board of health, and if there be no 
board of health, within the school district in question, from 
a licensed physician appointed by the board of education 
showing that the child is physically fit to be employed in any 
of the occupations permitted by law for a child between fif- 
teen and sixteen years of age. Provided that if the records 
of the school physician show such child to have been pre- 
viously sound in health, no further physician's certificate 
need be required, but the officer authorized to issue such cer- 
tificate may at his distretion require such physician's cer- 
tificate in any case, as a condition to the issuing of an age 
and schooling certificate. 

The superintendent or person authorized by him may 
issue special vacation certificates to boys under sixteen years 
of age and girls under eighteen years of age, which shall en- 
title the holders thereof to be employed during vacation in 
occupations not forbidden by law to such children even 
though such child may not have completed the sixth grade, 
but provided he has complied with all the other require- 
ments for obtaining the certificate hereinbefore described. 

Section 2. That said original section 7766 of the Gen- 
eral Code be and the same is hereby repealed. 



(House Bill No. 4.) 

To supplement section 9955 of the General Code by the enactment 
of supplemental sections 9955-1 and 9955-2, to authorize the 
interchangeable use of the words "academy", "college" and 
"university." 

Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That section 9955 of the General Code be 
supplemented by the enactment of supplemental sections 
9955-1 and 9955-2 to read as follows: 
Interchangeable Scc. 9955-1. A corporation formed for the promotion 

use of^the^^ of academic, collegiate or university education under re- 
ligious influences, and connected with any religious sect, as- 
sociation, or denomination, and to which, whether it be a 
conference, association, presbytery, synod, general as- 
sembly, convocation, or otherwise, it has granted the right 
to appoint its trustees or directors, or any number thereof, 
and which has incorporated into its charter or certificate 
of incorporation as a part of its corporate name either one 
or more of the words "academy", "college", or "univer- 
sity", may use one or more of said words not so incor- 
porated therein interchangeably with said word or words 
which may have been incorporated therein to the same ex- 



demv," "Col- 
lege and 
"XJniversity." 



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tent ana cis fully as die word or words so incorporated 
therein has or have been heretofore used in the name of 
such corporation, when authorized so to do by a resolution 
adopted by a majority vote of its trustees, or directors, at 
any regular meeting, or special meeting called for that pur- 
pose. Provided that a copy of such resolution certified by 
the clerk or secretary of such trustees or directors, and 
accompanied by a resolution of consent passed by such one 
of such ecclesiastical bodies as aforesaid, with which such 
corporation is connected, and certified by its clerk or sec- 
retary, shall first be filed in the office of the Secretary of 
State, and a certified copy thereof shall have been issued 
to and received by said clerk or secretary of such trustees 
or directors. 

Sec. 9955-2. Nothing herein contained, or the inter- usg of inter- 
changeable use of said word or words, as herein provided changeable 

. . words docs not 

and authorized, shall be held or construed as abolishing the affect the right 
use of the original corporate name of such corporation, or g[h,'*'^Lnt^"^ 
as aft'ecting the title, right or possession of such corpora- 
tion, to or of, any gift, grant, devise, or bequest hereto- 
fore, or hereafter made to it, whether the same shall have 
been made or shall be made in the original corporate name, 
or in one or more of said interchangeable names, or in all 
of such names: And the use of such original incorporate 
name, or one or more of such interchangeable names shall 
be held and construed as vesting in such corporation all 
gifts, grants, devises, and bequests as fully and to the 
same extent as if the same had been made in the name 
of the original incorporated name. 



evise, or be- 
quest. 



(House Bill No. 13.) 

To amend sections 4679, 4682-1, 4683, 4684, 46S5, 4687, 4688, 4689, 
4690, 4692, 4696, 471^2, 4714, 4715, 4726, 4727, 4728 to 4744 in- 
clusive, 4747, 5653, 7705, 7706, 7730, 7731, to add supplementary 
sections 4688-1, 4688-2, 4728-1, 4740-1, 4747-1, 4744-1 to 4744-6 
inclusive, 7706-1, 7706-2, 7706-3, 7706-4, 7706-5, 7730-1, and to 
repeal sections 4713, 4716, 4717 to 4725 inclusive of the Gen- 
eral Code, relating to the supervision of rural and village 
schools. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That sections 4679, 4682-1, 4683, 4684, 
4685, 4687, 4688, 4689, 4690, 4692, 4696, 4712, 4714, 4715, 
4726, 4727, 4728 to 4744 inclusive, 4747, 5653, 7705, 7706, 
7730 and 7731 be amended and that supplementary sections 
4688-1, 4688-2, 4728-1, 4735-1, 4735-2, 4744-1 to 4744-6 in- 
clusive, 4747-1, 7706-1, 7706-2, 7706-3, 7706-4 and 7706-5 of 
the General Code be added to read as follows : 

Sec. 4679. The school districts of the state shall be 
styled, respectively, city school districts, village school dis- 
tricts, rural school districts and county school districts. 

Sec. 4682-1. A village school district containing a 
population of less than fifteen hundred may vote at any s°h^J''|fif.^ 
general or special election to dissolve and join any con- tricts may dis 
tiguous rural district. After approval by the county board r°r^ duu^^ 



School dis- 
tricts classified. 



When and 



Title passes to 
rural district 
board of edu- 
cation. 



County school 
district defined. 



Territory must 
be contiguous. 



School district 
in newly 
created village. 



What village 
districts may 
become exempt 
from super- 
vision of 
county board. 



When a cen- 
sus of _ the 
population of 
village district 
may be taken. 



such proposition shall be submitted to the electors by the 
village board of education on the petition of one-fourth of 
the electors of such village school district or the village 
board may submit the proposition on its own motion and 
the result shall be determined by a majority vote of such 
electors. 

Sec. 4683. When a village school district is dissolved, 
the territory formerly constituting such village district shall 
become a part of the contiguous rural district which it votes 
to join in accordance with section 4682-1, and all school 
property shall pass to and become vested in the board of 
education of such rural school district. 

Sec. 4684. Each county, exclusive of the territory 
embraced in any city school district and the territory in any 
village school district exempted from the supervision of the 
county board of education by the provisions of sections 4688 
and 4688-1, and territory detached for school purposes, and 
including the territory attached to it for school purposes, 
shall constitute a county school district. In each case where 
any village or rural school district is situated in more than 
one county such district shall become a part of the county 
school district in which the greatest part of the territory of 
such village or rural district is situated. 

Sec. 4685. The territory included within the bound- 
aries of a city, village or rural school district shall be con- 
tiguous except where an island or islands form an integral 
part of the district. 

Sec. 4687. Upon the creation of a village, it shall 
thereby become a village school district, as herein provided, 
and, if the territory of such village previous to its creation 
was included within the boundaries of a rural school dis- 
trict and such rural school district included more territory 
that is included within the village, such territory shall 
thereby be attached to such village school district for school 
purposes, provided such territory has an area of less than 
sixteen square miles. 

Sec. 4688. The board of education of any village 
school district containing a village which according to the 
last federal census had a population of three thousand or 
more, may decide by a majority vote of the full membership 
thereof not to become a part of the county school district. 
Such village district by notifying the county board of educa- 
tion of such decision before the third Saturday of July, I9I4> 
shall be exempt from the supervision of the board. 

Sec. 4688-1. The board of education of a village 
school district shall upon the petition of one hundred or 
more electors of such district, or upon its own motion may 
at any time order a census to be taken of the population of 
such district. One or more persons may be appointed by 
the board to take such census. Each person so appointed 
shall take an oath or affirmation to take such census ac- 
curately and to the best of his ability. He shall make his 
return under oath to the clerk of the board, and certified 
copies of such return shall be sent to the county auditor 



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and superintendent of public instruction. If the census 
shows a population of three thousand or more in the vil- 
lage school district, and such census is approved by the 
superintendent of public instruction, such district shall, 
upon notification by the board of education of such village 
school district, be exempted from the supervision of the 
county board of education. 

Sec. 4688-2. All village school districts which are village district 
exempted from the supervision of the county board of ed- count''' lu°"r- 
ucation as provided in sections 4688 and 4688-1 are thereby yision ineTig- 
rendered ineligible to receive state aid for purposes of su- state ai"'*^'" 
pervision and teachers' training courses and for the grad- 
ing of schools as provided in section 7655-5 of the General 
Code. 

Sec. 4689. The provisions of law relating to the Disposal of 
power to settle claims, dispose of property or levy and s^crcaLs" 
collect taxes to pay existing obligations of a village that 
has surrendered its corporate powers, shall also apply to 
such village school district and the board of education 
thereof. 

Sec. 4690. When territory is annexed to a city or Title to prop- 
village, such territory thereby becomes a part of the city riVo^r/iifnexed 
or village school district, and the legal title to school \° =''y o"" ^'i- 
property in such territory for school purposes shall remain *^^' 
vested in the board of education of the school district from 
which such territory was detached, until such time as may 
be agreed upon by the several boards of education when 
such property may be transferred by warranty deed. 

Sec. 4692. Part of any county school district may be Transfer of 
transferred to an adjoining county school district or city or territory from 

•11 1 1 1- • 1 1 1 fill °"e school dis- 

village school districts by the mutual consent of the boards trict to another. 
of education having control of such districts. To secure 
such consent, it shall be necessary for each of the boards 
to pass a resolution indicating the action taken and def- 
initely describing the territory to be transferred. The 
passage of such resolution shall require a majority vote of 
the full membership of each board by a yea and nay 
vote, and the vote of each member shall be entered on the 
records of such boards. Such transfer shall not take ef- 
fect until a map, showing the boundaries of the territory 
transferred, is placed upon the records of such boards and 
copies of the resolution certified to the president and clerk 
of each board together with a copy of such map are filed 
with the auditors of the counties in which such transferred 
territory is situated. 

Sec. 4696. When territory is transferred from one Apportionment 
school district to another, the equitable division of funds "ndebtedness"' 
or indebtedness shall be determined upon at the time of the •s'^tTansYerred^ 
transfer. When territory is transferred from one district 
to another by the annexation of territory to a city or vil- 
lage, the proper division of funds in the treasury, or in 
process of collection, of the board of education of the 
school district from which the territory is detached, shall, 
upon application to the probate court of the county in 



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Board of edu- 
cation in rural 
school districts. 



Assignment of 
electors in at- 
tached terri- 
tory for school 
purposes. 



Compensation 
of members 
of board. 



Members of 
county board 
of education; 
election and 
qualifications. 



How school 
districts shall 
cast vote for 
members of 
county board. 



which such territory is situated by either board of educa- 
tion interested, be determined and ordered by such court. 
If such board of education is indebted, such indebtedness, 
together with the proper amount of money to be paid to 
such board by the board of education of the school dis- 
trict to which the territory is transferred, annexed, or of 
the district created, shall be in like manner determined and 
ordered by the court. 

Sec. 4712. In rural school districts, the board of 
education shall consist of five members elected at large at 
the same time township officers are elected and in the man- 
ner provided by law, for a term of four years. 

Sec. 4714. Electors residing in a rural school dis- 
trict may vote for school officers and on all school ques- 
tions at the proper voting place in the township in which 
such district is located. If the township is divided into 
different voting precincts, the board of education of such 
district shall assign the voters thereof to the proper pre- 
cinct or precincts, and a map shall be prepared showing 
such assignment, which map shall be made a part of the 
records of the board. Electors may vote according to such 
assignment, but, if no assignment of territory is made, 
they shall vote, in the precinct nearest their residence. 

Sec. 4715. Each member of the board of education of 
rural school districts, except such districts as contain less 
than sixteen square miles, shall receive as compensation 
two dollars for each regular meeting actually attended by 
such member, but for not more than five meetings in any 
year. The compensation allowed members of the board 
shall be paid from the contingent fund. 

Sec. 4728. Each county school district shall be under 
the supervision and control of a county board of education 
composed of five members who shall be elected by the 
presidents of the various village and rural boards of educa- 
tion in such county school district. Each district shall 
have one vote in the election of members of the county 
board of education except as is provided in section 4728-1. 
At least one member of the county board of education 
shall be a resident of a village school district if such dis- 
trict is located in the county school distict and at least 
three members of such board shall be residents of rural 
school districts, but not more than one member of the 
county board of education shall reside in any one village or 
rural school district within the county school district. 

Sec. 4728-1. All school districts other than village 
and city school districts within a civil township shall be 
jointly entitled to one vote in the election of members of 
the county board of education. The presidents of the 
board of education of all such districts in a civil township 
shall meet for the purpose of choosing one from their 
number to cast the vote for members of the county board 
of education. If no such meeting is held in any year for 
the purpose of choosing one from their number to cast the 
vote of such boards, the president of the board having the 



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largest tax valuation shall represent all such districts of 
the civil township at the election of the county board 
members. A board of education of a rural district having 
territory in two or more civil townships shall vote with the 
boards of education of the districts of the civil township 
in which the greater part of its taxable property is located. 

Sec. 4729. On the second Saturday m June, 1914, the When m^em-^^ 
nresidents of the boards of education of the various yil- ^oard elected 
!age and rural school districts in each county school dis- andjer™ of 
trfct shall meet and elect the five members of the county 
board of education, one for one year, one for two years, 
one for three years, one for four years and one for hve 
years, and until their successors are elected and qualihed. 
The terms of office of such members shall begin on the 
fifteenth of July, IQH- and each year thereafter on the 
third Saturday of January. Each year thereafter one 
member of the county board of education shall be elected 
in the same manner for a term of five years. The presi- 
dents of the various boards of education within the county 
school district shall be paid their necessary and actual ex- 
penses incurred while meeting for the purpose of electing 
members of the county board of education. Such expenses 
shall be allowed by the county auditor and paid out of the 
county treasury upon the order of the chairman and clerk 

of the meeting. i. u 11 

Sec 4730. The county auditor of each county shall caii fo'^.^eet- 
issue the call for the first meeting, giving at least ten days ^"Jl' „f,Xn'. 
notice of the place where such meeting will be held, ihe 
call for all future meetings shall be issued by the county 
superintendent. The meeting shall organize by electmg a 
chairman and a clerk. The vote of a majority of the mem- 
bers present shall be necessary to elect each member of 
the county board. The members of the county board so 
elected, may or may not be members or officers of any 
village or rural board of education. The result of the 
election of members of the county board of education shall 
be certified to the county auditor by the chairman and 
clerk of the meeting. , j r 

Sec 47^1. Each member of the county board of oath; r.- 
education shall within ten days after receiving notice of 
his election, take an oath that he ^'1^^'. ^"'k W.^nv 
the duties of his office. Such oath may be taken before any 
one authorized by law to administer oaths.^ If any person 
so elected shall fail to take such oath withm the time pre- 
scribed, the office to which he was elected ^h all be con- 
sidered vacant. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled in 
the same manner as is provided m section 4748 of the 

^^"^Sec. 4732'. Each county board of education shall meet Meehng of 
on the third Saturdav of July, 1914, and on the third Sat- - ^Ltion. 
urday of March of" each year thereafter, and shall or- reco.d^^of^^_ 
ganize by electing one of its members president, and an- 
other vice-presid?nt, both of whom shall serve for one 
year A temporary secretary shall be chosen who shall 



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Regular meet- 
ings when and 
where held. 



Payment of 
expenses. 



Existing dis- 
tricts remain 
until changed 
by county 
board. 

OfBcers con- 
tinue until 
successors 
elected. 



Procedure to 
dissolve rural 
district and 
join to others 
contiguous 
thereto. 



Title to prop- 
erty vests in 
board of edu- 
cation to 
which it is 
joined. 



act until a county superintendent has been elected and 
thereafter the county superintendent shall act as secretary 
of the board. The secretary shall keep a full record of the 
proceedings of the board, properly indexed, in a book pro- 
vided for that purpose. Each motion, with the name of 
the person making it and the vote thereon, shall be entered 
on the record. 

Sec. 4733- The regular meetings of the county board 
of education shall be held at the office of the county super- 
intendent. At the time of the first meeting, the board shall 
fix the time for holding its regular meetings. Regular 
meetings shall be held at least every two months and when 
necessary other meetings may be held at the call of the 
president, or any two members. A majority of the board 
shall constitute a quorum at any regular or special meet- 
ing. 

Sec. 4734. Each member of the county board of 
education shall be paid his actual and necessary expenses 
incurred during his attendance upon any meeting of the 
board. Such expenses, and the expenses of the county 
superintendent, itemized and verified shall be paid from 
the county board of education fund upon vouchers signed 
by the president of the board. 

Sec. 4735. The present existing township and special 
school districts shall constitute rural school districts until 
changed by the county board of education, and all officers 
and members of boards of education of such existing dis- 
tricts shall continue to hold and exercise their respective 
offices and powers until their terms expire and until their 
successors are elected and qualified. 

Sec. 4735-1. When a petition signed by not less than 
one-fourth of the electors residing within the territory con- 
stituting a rural school district, praying that the rural dis- 
trict be dissolved and joined to a contiguous rural or vil- 
lage district, is presented to the board of education of such 
district; or when such board, by a majority vote of the 
full membership thereof, shall decide to submit the ques- 
tion to dissolve and join a contiguous rural or village dis- 
trict, the board shall fix the time of holding such election 
at a special or general election. The clerk of the board of 
such district shall notify the deputy state supervisors of 
elections, of the date of such election and the purposes 
thereof, and such deputy state supervisors shall provide 
therefor. The clerk of the board of education shall post 
notices thereof in five public places within the district. 
The result shall be determined by a majority vote of such 
electors. 

Sec. 4735-2. The legal title of the property of the 
rural school district, in case such rural district is dissolved 
and joined to a rural or village district as provided in sec- 
tion 4735-1, shall become vested in the board of education 
of the rural or village school district to which such dis- 
trict is joined. The school fund of such dissolved rural 
district shall become a part of the fund of the rural or vil- 



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laee school district which it voted to join. The dissolution 
of such district shall not be complete until the board o 
educaiion of the district has provided for the payment of 
any indebtedness that may exist. 

Sec 47^6 The county board of education shall as 
soon as oossible after organizing make a survey of its dis- 
rTct The board shall Irrang? the schools according to 
toooeraphy and population in order that they may be most 
easnv accessible to pupils. To this end the county board 
Tan ha4 power by resolution at any regular or special 
meeinTtoSge school district lines and transfer ter- 
ntoryiom one rural of village school district to another 
A mao dSienating such changes shall be entered on the 
^ecord^s of^he boa?d and a copy of the resolution and map 
shall be filed with the county auditor. In changing bound- 
.rv ines the b^ard may proceed without regard to township 
S and shall provide^hat adjoining rural districts are as 
early equal as^possible in property valuation In no case 
shall anv rural district be created containing less than fif- 
een square miles. In changing boundary ines and other 
w^rk^'f a like nature the -unty boai^ sha a^< h^^^^^^^ 
ance of the county surveyor and the latter is tiereoy re 
quired to give the services of his office at the formal re- 

^n:c 4;rTru?aTtard of education may submit 
the Question of centralization, and, upon the petition of no 
ess than one-fourth of the qualified electors of such rural 
dfstrict or upon the order of the county board of educa- 
tion must submit such question to the vote of the qualified 
dec(o?stf such rural district at a general election or a spe- 
cial election called for that purpose. If ."If ^ votes are 
cast in favor of centralization than against it, at such 
dectiin such rural board of education shall proceed at once 
to tie cSization of the schools of the rural district, and 
f necessary purchase a site or sites and erect a suitable 
building or^bSildings thereon. If, at such election, more 
vo es a?e cast against the proposition of centralization than 
for it the quettion shall not again be submitted to the 
decto^s of such rural district for a period of two years, 
except upon the petition of at least forty per cent of the 

'^"Teri72r'whln'^e schools of a rural school district 
have been ^centralized such centralization shall not be dis- 
c::tlnued\"thin three years,, and then on X by petition and 
election as provided in section 4726. U at such election 
more votes are cast against centralization than for it the 
SvLionlnto subdistricts as they existed prior to centraliza- 
finn shall therebv be re-established. . 

Sec 4747 The board of education of each city, vil- 
lage and rural school district shall organize on the first 
\'P A f Totnu^rv nfter the dect on of members of such 
S''o°nJr„be'r of the board shall be elected president, 
one as vice president and a person who may or may "Ot be 
a member of the board shall be elected clerk. The presi- 



Powers and 
duties of 
county board. 



Question of 
centralization 
to be sub- 
mitted to -vote. 



Question of de- 
centralization 
may be sub- 
mitted after 
three years. 



Date of or- 
ganization; 
regular 
meetings. 



M 



Annual meet- 
ing of all 
members for 
discussion of 
school mat- 
ters. 



Power of 
board to 
suspend a 
school. 
Conveyancce 
of pupils. 



When board 
shall provide 
transportation. 



Publication of 
minimum 
course of 
study by 
county board. 



Division of 
county district 
into super- 
vision dis- 
tricts. 



dent and vice-president shall serve for a term of one year 
and the clerk for a term not to exceed two years. The 
board shall fix the time of holding its regular meeting. 

Sec. 4747-1. Once each year all the members of the 
boards of education of the various village and rural school 
districts within any county school district shall hold a 
meeting for the purpose of discussing matters relating to 
the schools of such county school district. The county 
superintendent shall arrange for the time and place of 
holding such meeting and shall also act as chairman. 

Sec. 7730. The board of education of any rural or 
village school district may suspend any or all schools in 
such village or rural school district. Upon such suspension 
the board in such village school district may provide and in 
such rural school district shall provide for the conveyance 
of the pupils attending such schools to a public school in 
the rural or village district, or to a public school in another 
district. When the average daily attendance of any school 
for the preceeding year has been below twelve, such school 
shall be suspended and the pupils transferred to such other 
school or schools as the local board may direct. No school 
of any rural district shall be suspended or abolished until 
after sixty days' notice has been given by the school board 
of such district. Such notice shall be posted in five con- 
spicuous places within such village or rural school district. 

Sec. 7731. In all rural and village school districts 
where pupils live more than two miles from the nearest 
school the board of education shall provide transportation 
for such pupils to and from such school. The transporta- 
tion for pupils living less than two miles from the school 
house, by the most direct public highway shall be optional 
with the board of education. When transportation of pu- 
pils is provided, the conveyance must pass within one-half 
mile of the respective residences of all pupils, except when 
such residences are situated more than one-half mile from 
the public road. When local boards of education neglect 
or refuse to provide transportation for pupils, the county 
board of education shall provide such transportation and 
the cost thereof shall be charged against the local school 
district. 

Sec. 4737. The county board of education shall pub- 
lish with the advice of the county superintendent a min- 
imum course of study which shall be a guide to local boards 
of education in prescribing the courses of study for the 
school under their control. The county board may publish 
different courses of study for village and rural school dis- 
tricts. 

Sec. 4738. The county board of education shall within 
thirty days after organizing divide the county school dis- 
trict into supervision districts, each to contain one or more 
village or rural school districts. The territory of such 
supervision districts shall be contiguous and compact. In 
the formation of the supervision districts consideration 
shall be given to the number of teachers employed, the 



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amount of consolidation and centralization, the condition 
of the roads and general topography. The territory in the 
different districts shall be as nearly equal as practicable 
and the number of teachers employed in any one super- 
vision district shall not be less than twenty nor more than 
sixty. 

The county board of education shall, upon application 
of three-fourths of the presidents of the village and rural 
district boards of the county, redistrict the county into 
supervision districts. 

Sec. 4739. Each supervision district shall be under 
the direction of a district superintendent. Such district 
superintendent shall be elected by the presidents of the 
village and rural boards of education within such district, 
except that where such supervision district contains three 
or less rural or village school districts the boards of educa- 
tion of such school districts in joint session shall elect such 
superintendent. The district superintendent shall be em- 
ployed upon the nomination of the county superintendent 
but the board electing such district superintendent may by 
a majority vote elect a district superintendent not so nom- 
inated. 

Sec. 4740. Any village or rural district or union of 
school districts for supervision purposes which already 
employs a superintendent and which officially certifies by 
the clerk or clerks of the board of education on or before 
July 20th, 1914, that it will employ a superintendent who 
gives at least one-half of his time in supervision, shall 
upon application to the county board of education be con- 
tinued as a separate supervision district so long as the 
superintendent receives a salary of at least one thousand 
dollars and continues to give one-half of his time to su- 
pervision work. Such districts shall receive such portion 
of state aid for the payment of the salary of the district 
superintendent as is based on the ratio of the number of 
teachers employed to forty, multiplied by the fraction 
which represents that fraction of the regular school day 
which the superintendent gives to supervision. The county 
superintendent shall make no nomination of a district su- 
perintendent in such district until a vacancy in such super- 
intendency occurs. After the first vacancy occurs in the 
superintendency of such a district all appointments shall be 
made on the nomination of the county superintendent in 
the manner provided in section 4739. A vacancy shall occur 
only when such superintendent resigns, dies or fails of 
re-election. 

Any school district or districts, having less than 
twenty teachers, isolated from the remainder of the county 
school district by supervision districts provided for in this 
section shall be joined for supervision purposes to one or 
more of such supervision districts, but the superintendent 
or superintendents already employed in such supervision 
district or districts shall be in charge of the enlarged super- 
vision district or districts until a vacancy occurs. 



When county 
shall be 
re-districcted. 



Election of 
district super- 
intendent. 



District which 
already em- 
ploys a su- 
perintendent. 



Nomination 
when vacancy 
occurs. 



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Term of 
district su- 
perintendent. 



Meeting to 
elect successor 
to district su- 
perintendent. 



Compensation 
of district 
superin- 
tendent. 
Amount paid 
by state. 



County super- 
intendent; 
appointment, 
term, duties. 



Salary of 
county super- 
intendent; 
how paid. 



Sec. 4741. The first election of any district superin- 
tendent shall be for a term not longer than one year, there- 
after he may be re-elected in the same district for a period 
not to exceed three years. Whenever for any cause in any 
district a superintendent has not been appointed by Sep- 
tember first, the county board of education shall appoint 
such superintendent for a term of one year. 

Sec. 4742. Not less than sixty days before the ex- 
piration of the term of any district superintendent, the 
presidents of the boards of education within such super- 
vision district, or in supervision districts which contain 
three or less village or rural districts, the boards of educa- 
tion of such districts shall meet and elect his successor. 
The president of the board in the village or rural district 
having the largest number of teachers shall issue the call 
giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place of 
meeting. He shall also act as chairman and certify the 
results of such meeting to the county board of education. 

Sec. 4743. The compensation of the district superin- 
tendent shall be fixed at the same time that the appoint- 
ment is made and by the same authority which appoints 
him; such compensation shall be paid out of the county 
board of education fund on vouchers signed by the pres- 
ident of the county board. The salary of any district su- 
perintendent shall in no case be less than one thousand 
dollars per annum, half of which salary not to exceed 
seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be paid by the state 
and half by the supervision district, except where the num- 
ber of teachers in any supervision district is less than forty 
in which case the amounts paid by the state shall be such 
proportion of half the salary as the ratio of the number of 
teachers employed is to forty. The half paid by the super- 
vision district shall be pro-rated among the village and 
rural school districts in such district in proportion to the 
number of teachers employed in each district. 

Sec. 4744. The county board of education at a reg- 
ular meeting held not later than July 20th, shall appoint a 
county superintendent for a term not longer than three 
years commencing on the first day of August. Such county 
superintendent shall have the educational qualifications 
mentioned in section 4744-4. He shall be in all respects 
the executive officer of the county board of education, and 
shall attend all meetings with the privilege of discussion 
but not of voting. 

Sec. 4744-1. The salary of the county superintendent 
shall be fixed by the county board of education, to be not 
less than twelve hundred dollars per year, and shall be paid 
out of the county board of education fund on vouchers 
signed by the president of the county board. Half of such 
salary shall be paid by the state and the balance by the 
county school district. In no case shall the amount paid 
by the state be more than one thousand dollars. The 
county board may also allow the county superintendent a 
sum not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum for 



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traveling expenses and clerical help. The half paid by the 
county school district shall be pro-rated among the village 
and rural school districts in the county in proportion to the 
number of teachers employed in each district. 

Sec. 4744-2. On or before the first day of August of county board 
each year the county board of education shall certify to the annuau""^^ 
county auditor the number of teachers to be employed for number of 
the ensuing year in the various rural and village school dis- sut^r?ntendents 
tricts within the county school district, and also the num- sl^a'-'Js^'^and 
ber of district superintendents employed and their com- amounts ap- 
penSation and the compensation of the county superin- each°dfstrict. 
tendent; and such board of education shall also certify to 
the county auditor the amounts to be apportioned to each 
district for the payment of its share of the salaries of the 
county and district superintendents. 

Sec. 4744-3. The county auditor when making his County auditor 
semi-annual apportionment of the school funds to the f|?g^ ^^^p^^" 
various village and rural school districts shall retain the tionment of 

. . 1 ■• r,i 1- c school funds 

amounts necessary to pay such portion of the salaries of sum necessary 
the county and district superintendents as may be certified and^^distd""'^ 
by the county board. Such amount shall be placed in a superin- 
separate fund to be known as the "County Board of Educa- countVauditor 
tion Fund". The county board of education shall certify shall certify to 
under oath to the state auditor the amount due from the Imount" du°e'^ 
state as its share of the salaries of the county and dis- ^'■"'" ^*^*^- 
trict superintendents of such county school district for the 
next six months. Upon receipt by the state auditor of such 
certificate, he shall draw his warrant upon the state treas- 
urer in favor of the county treasurer for the required 
amount, which shall be placed by the county auditor in the 
county board of education fund. 

Sec. 4744. Only such persons shall be eligible as who eligible 
county superintendents who shall have: plrint^nd'ent". 

(i) Five years' experience as superintendent and a 
high school life certificate; or 

(2) Six years' experience in teaching, two years' ad- 
ditional experience in supervision, and at least a three-year 
county high school certificate; or 

(3) Five years' experience as superintendent and a 
county high school certificate, and also be a graduate from 
a recognized institution of college or university rank; or 

(4) Five years' teaching experience with one year's 
professional training in school administration and super- 
vision in a recognized school of college or university rank, 
and a high school life certificate; or 

(5) Five years' teaching experience with one year's 
professional training in school administration and super- 
vision in a recognized school of college or university rank, 
and a county high school certificate, and be a graduate 
from a recognized institution of college or university rank. 

Sec. 4744-5. Only such persons shall be eligible as wbo eligible 

district superintendents who shall have : as 6\lllla su- 

(i) Three years' experience in school supervision, perintendents. 
and. at least a county high school certificate ; or 



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Offices for 
county super- 
intendent and 
county board 
of education. 



Employment 
of teachers. 



Designation of 

Erincipal in 
ig:h and con- 
solidated 
sckools. 



Duties of dis- 
trict super- 
intendent. 



Assemble 
teachers for 
conference. 



(2) Four years' experience in teaching, one year's 
additional experience in supervision or one year's training 
in supervision in an institution of college or university rank 
and at least a county high school certificate; or ; 

(3) Three years' experience in teaching, graduation 
from a first grade high school or its equivalent, and in ad- 
dition thereto two years' professional training in a recog- 
nized institution of college or normal school rank for the 
training of teachers and at least a county high school 
certificate. The county board of education shall certify to 
the superintendent of public instruction the qualifications 
of each county and district superintendent. 

Sec. 4744-6. The county commissioners of each 
county shall provide and furnish offices in the county seat 
for the use of the county superintendent. Such offices shall 
be the permanent headquarters of the county superintendent 
and shall be used by the county board of education when in 
session. 

Sec. 7705. The board of education of each village, 
and rural school district shall employ the teachers of the 
public schools of the district, for a term not longer than 
three school years, to begin within four months of the 
date of appointment. The local board shall employ no 
teacher for any school unless such teacher is nominated 
therefor by the district superintendent of the supervision 
district in which such school is located except by a ma- 
jority vote. In all high schools and consolidated schools 
one of the teachers shall be designated by the board as 
principal and shall be the administrative head of such 
school. 

Sec. 7706. The district superintendent shall visit the 
schools under his charge, direct and assist teachers in the 
performance of their duties, classify and control the pro- 
motion of pupils, and shall spend not less than three-fourths 
of his working time in actual class room supervision. He 
shall report to the county superintendent annually, and 
oftener if required, as to all matters under his supervision. 
He shall be the chief executive officer of all boards of 
education within his district and shall attend any and all 
meetings. He may take part in their deliberations, but 
shall not vote. Such time as is not spent in actual super- 
vision shall be used for organization and administrative 
purposes and in the instruction of teachers. At the re- 
quest of the county board of education he shall teach in 
teachers' training courses which may be organized in the 
county school district. 

Sec. 7706-1. The district superintendent shall, as of- 
ten as advisable, assemble the teachers of his district for 
the purpose of conference on the course of study, dis- 
cipline, school management and other school work and for 
the promotion of the general good of all the schools in the 
district. The county superintendent shall co-operate with 
the different district superintendents in holding sucli teach- 



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ers' meetings and shall attend as many of them as his 
other duties will permit. 

Sec. 7706-2. It shall be the duty of the district su- 
perintendent to recommend to the village and rural boards 
of education within such district, such text books and 
courses of study as are most suitable for adoption. 

Sec. 7706-3. The county superintendent shall hold 
monthly meetings with the district superintendents and 
advise with them on matters of school efficiency. He shall 
visit and inspect the schools under his supervision as often 
as possible and with the advice of the district superin- 
tendent shall outline a schedule of school visitation for the 
teachers of the county school district. 

Sec. 7706-4. The county superintendent shall have 
direct supervision over the training of teachers in any 
training courses which may be given in any county school 
district and shall personally teach not less than one hun- 
dred nor more than two hundred periods in any one year. 
It shall be his duty to see that all reports required by law 
are made out and sent to the county auditor and superin- 
tendent of public instruction and make such other reports 
as the superintendent of public instruction may require. 
Any county superintendent or district superintendent who 
becomes connected with or becomes an agent of or fi- 
nancially interested in any book publishing or book selling 
company or educational journal or magazine, shall become 
ineligible to hold such office and shall be forthwith re- 
moved by the board having control over such county super- 
intendent or district superintendent. 

Sec. 7706-5. The provisions of this act shall apply 
only to the public schools of the state. 

Sec. 5653. After paying all such sheep claims, at the 
June session of the county commissioners, if there remain 
more than one thousand dollars of such fund, the excess 
at such June session, shall be transferred and disposed as 
follows : in a county in which there is a society for the pre- 
vention of cruelty to children and animals, incorporated 
and organized as provided by law, which has one or more 
agents appointed in pursuance of law, all such excess as the 
county commissioners deem necessary for the uses and pur- 
poses of such society by order of the commissioners and 
upon the warrant of the county auditor shall be paid to the 
treasurer of such society, and any surplus not so trans- 
ferred shall be transferred to the county board of educa- 
tion fund at the direction of the county commissioners. 

Section 2. That original sections 4679, 4682-1, 4683, 
4684, 4685, 46S7, 4688, 4689, 4692, 4696, 4712, 4714, 4715, 
4716, 4726, 4727, 4728 to 4744 inclusive, 4747, 5653, 7705, 
7706, 7730 and 7731, and sections 4690, 4691, 4713, 4717 to 
4725 inclusive of the General Code be and the same are 
hereby repealed. 



Recommend 
text books 
and courses 
of study. 



Duties of 
county super- 
intendent. 



Supervision of 
training 
courses; 
reports. 



Superintendent 
fimanciallv 
interested in 
book company 
ineligible to 
hold such 
office. 



Distribution 
of surplus 
9he«p claims 
fund. 



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State board; 
appointment 
and qualifi- 
cations. 



Terms _ and 
vacancies. 



Power to issue 
certificates ; 
record thereof. 



Professional 
training of 
applicants 
required. 



(House Bill No. 14.) 

To amend sections 7805, 7806, 7807, 7808, 7810, 7811 to 7823 in- 
clusive, 7825, 7830, 7831, 7832, 7832-1, 7834, 7835, 7836, 7837, 
7839, 7844, 7845, 7846, 7847, 7854, 7855, 7857, 7858, to add supple- 
mentary sections 7807-1 to 7807-6 inclusive, 7821'-.!, 7821-2, 
7822-1, 7823-1, and 7832-2, and to repeal sections 7740, 7741, 
7S48, 7858-1 to 7858-7 inclusive of the General Code relating 
to the certification and examination of teachers in the public 
schools. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 

Section i. That sections 7805, 7806, 7807, 7808, 
7810, 781 1 to 7823 inclusive, 7825, 7830, 7831, 7832, 7832-1, 
7834, 7835, 7836, 7837, 7838, 7839, 7844, 7845, 7846, 7847, 
7854, 7855, 7857, 7858 of the General Code be amended and 
supplementary sections 7807-1 to 7807-7 inclusive, 782 i-i, 
7821-2, 7822-1, 7823-1, 7832-2 and 7832-3 be added to read 
as follows : 

Sec. 7805. There shall be a state board of school ex- 
aminers, consisting of five competent persons, resident of 
the state, to be appointed by the superintendent of public 
instruction. Not more than three of them shall belong to 
the same political party. 

Sec. 7806. The term of office of such examiners shall 
be five years. The term of one of the examiners shall ex- 
pire on the thirty-first day of August each year. When a 
vacancy occurs in the board, whether from expiration of 
the term of office, refusal to serve, or other cause, the super- 
intendent of public instruction shall fill it by appointment 
for the full or unexpired term, as the case demands. 

Sec. 7807. The board thus constituted may issue three 
grades of life certificates to such persons as are found 
to possess the requisite scholarship, and who exhibit satis- 
factory evidence of good moral character and of profes- 
sional experience and ability. The certificates shall be for 
different grades of schools according to branches taught 
and be valid in the schools specified therein. The clerk of 
the board shall keep a record of the proceedings, showing 
the number, date and grade of each certificate, to whom 
granted, and for what branches of study, and report such 
statistics to the superintendent of public instruction, an- 
nually, on or before the thirty-first day of August. 

Sec. 7807-1. Applicants for life certificates of any 
kind shall possess an amount of professional training as 
follows : 

1. On and after January first, 191 5, not less than a 
one-year course or its equivalent in summer school work, 
in a recognized institution of college or normal school rank 
for the training of teachers, or a year's course in an arts 
college on the recognized list, maintaining a practice de- 
partment. 

2. On and after January first, 1920, not less than a 
two-year course, or its equivalent in summer school work, 
in a recognized institution of college or normal school rank 



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for the training of teachers, or two years' work ni an arts 
college on the recognized list maintaining a practice de- 
partment not less than one-fourth of which work shall be 
in educational subjects including observation and practice 

teaching. 

Sec. 7807-2. In addition to the requirements men- 
tioned in section 7807-1, every applicant for a life certifi- 
cate if not a graduate of a recognized institution for the 
trailing of teachers of college or normal school rank or 
liberal arts college on the recognized list, shall have had 
at least fifty months of successful teaching experience and 
hold a certificate of graduation from a first grade high 
school or its equivalent. 

Sec. 7807-3. A graduate from any normal school, 

teachers' college, college or university, who has completed 

a full two years' academic and professional course m such 

institution and who also possesses a first grade high school 

diploma or its equivalent shall, upon application to the 

superintendent of public instruction and the payment of a 

fee of one dollar, be granted without further examination 

a provisional elementary certificate valid for four years in 

any school district within the state; provided that such 

institution has been approved by the superintendent ot 

public instruction. ,11 

Sec. 7807-4. A graduate from any normal school, 

teachers' college, college or university, who has completed 

a full four years' academic and professional course m such 

institution and who also holds a certificate of graduation 

from a first grade high school or its equivalent shall, upon 

application to the superintendent of public instruction and 

the payment of a fee of one dollar, be granted without 

further examination a provisional high school certificate 

valid for four years in any school district withm the state ; 

provided that such institution has been approved by the 

superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec 7807-5. A graduate from any normal school, 
teachers' college, college or university, who has completed 
a special two-year course, with training school experience 
in music, drawing, penmanship, manual training, physical 
culture, domestic science, agriculture, kindergartening, any 
modern language, or such other studies as are required to 
be taught by special teachers or supervisors and who also 
possesses a first grade high school diploma or its equivalent, 
shall upon application to the superintendent of public in- 
struction and the pavment of a fee of one dollar, be granted 
without further examination a provisional special certificate 
in such subject or subjects valid for four years in any 
school district within the state; provided that such mstitu- 
tion has been approved by the superintendent of public 

instruction. ^ , . . u a ^( 

Sec 7807-6. It shall be the duty of the state board ot 
school examiners to issue without examination to every 
holder of a state provisional certificate, a life certificate of 
similar kind upon satisfactory evidence that the hold^ 



Additional re- 
quirements 
when appli- 
cant not a 
graduate. 



When elemen- 
tary certificate 
may be 
granted 
without 
further ex- 
amination. 



When high 
school cer- 
tificate may 
be granted 
without fur- 
tker examina- 
tion. 



When special 
certificate 
may be 
granted. 



When life cer- 
tificate shall 
be isued to 
holder of 
provisional 
certificate. 



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When state 
life high 
school cer- 
tificate shall 
be issued to 
holder of 
degree. 



Effect thereof; 
may be re- 
voked for 



Compensation 
of examiners. 



County board; 
how composed. 



Who eligible 
as examiners. 



Term. Revo- 
cation of ap- 
pointment. 



thereof has completed at least twenty-four months of suc- 
cessful teaching, after receiving such provisional certificate. 

Sec. 7807-7. The state board of school examiners shall 
issue without examination, a state life high school certifi- 
cate to the holder of a degree from any normal school, 
teachers' college, or university that has been approved by 
the superintendent of public instruction, upon satisfactory 
evidence that the holder thereof has completed at least 
fifty months of successful teaching. 

Sec. 7808. All certificates issued by such board shall 
be countersigned by the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion. They shall supersede the necessity of any and all 
other examinations of the persons holding them, by any 
board of examiners, and be valid in any school district in 
the state, unless revoked by the state board for good cause. 

Sec. 7810. Each member of the board shall receive 
five dollars for each day he is necessarily engaged in official 
service, and also his actual and necessary expenses, to be 
paid out of the state treasury on the order of the state 
auditor. All books, blanks and stationery required by the 
board shall be furnished by the secretary of state. 

Sec. 781 1. There shall be a county board of school 
examiners for each county, consisting of the county super- 
intendent one district superintendent and one other com- 
petent teacher, the latter two to be appointed by the county 
board of education. The teacher so appointed must have 
had at least two years' experience as teacher or superin- 
tendent, and be a teacher or supervisor in the public schools 
of the county school district or of an exempted village 
school district. Should he remove from the county during 
his term, his office thereby shall be vacated and his suc- 
cessor appointed. 

Sec. 7812. No examiner shall teach in, be connected 
with, or financially interested in any school which is not 
supported wholly or in part by the state, or be employed 
as a paid instructor in any teachers' institute in his own 
county; nor shall any person be appointed as, or exercise 
the office of examiner who is agent of or financially in- 
terested in any book publishing or book selling firm, com- 
pany or business, or in any educational journal or maga- 
zine. If an examiner becomes connected with or inter- 
ested in any school not under state control, or is employed 
in any such institution in his own county, or becomes an 
agent of or interested in any book company or journal, or 
fails to hold the necessary teachers' certificate, or removes 
from the county, the county board of education upon being 
apprised of such fact, forthwith shall remove such ex- 
aminer and appoint his successor. 

Sec. 7813. The term of office of such appointive 
school examiners shall be two years. The term of one of 
the examiners shall expire on the thirty-first day of August, 
each year. The county board of education shall revoke the 
appointment of any examiner, upon satisfactory proof tha* 
he is inefficient, intemperate, negligent, guilty of imm("r^' 



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conduct, or that he is using his office for personal or private 
gain. 

Sec. 7814. When a vacancy occurs in the board, 
whether from expiration of the term of office, refusal to 
serve, or other cause, the county board of education 
promptly shall fill it by appointment for the full or un- 
expired term, and within ten days, report this to the super- 
intendent of public instruction, together with the names of 
the other members of the board and the date of the expira- 
tion of their several terms of office. 

Sec. 7815. Annually, in the month of September, the 
board of county school examiners shall organize by choos- 
ing from its members a president and a vice president. 
The county superintendent shall be the clerk of the board. 
The president shall preside at all the meetings of the board. 
In his absence the vice president shall preside. The clerk 
shall keep a full and accurate record of the proceedings of 
the board, showing the number, date and character of each 
certificate issued, to whom, for what term and what 
branches of study, with such other statistics relating to 
the examination and proceedings of the board as the super- 
intendent of public instruction requires, in the form and 
manner required by him, and make a report of all such 
items annually on or before the first day of September. 

Sec. 7816. The board shall make all needful rules and 
regulations for the proper discharge of its duties and the 
conduct of its work, subject to statutory provisions and 
the approval of the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 7817. Each board shall hold public meetings 
for the examination of applicants for county teachers' cer- 
tificates on the first Saturday of September, October, Jan- 
uary, March, April, May, and the last Friday of June and 
August of each year, unless any such day falls on a legal 
^holiday, in which case, it shall be held on the corresponding 
day of the succeeding week, at such place within the 
county as, in the opinion of the board, best will accom- 
modate the greatest number of applicants. In no case 
shall the board hold any private examination or antedate 
any certificate. 

Sec. 7818. A majority of the board may examine 
applicants and grant certificates. An applicant for a 
county teachers' certificate may, if he so elects, take one- 
half of the subjects in which he is to be examined on one 
day and the remaining one-half not later than the second 
regular examination day thereafter. The subjects to be 
taken the first day by an applicant shall be determined by 
the board of county examiners. If an applicant electing to 
take the examination in two days fails to obtain on the first 
day a grade of seventy-five per cent or more, in any sub- 
ject or subjects, such applicant may elect to be re-examined 
in such subject or subjects on the second day on which such 
applicant is to be examined. As a condition of an appli- 
cant's being admitted to take the examination he shall pay 
to the board for the use of the county board of education 



Vacancies. 



Organization 
of board; 
duties of 
officers. 



Rules and 
regulations. 



Meetings for 
examinations; 
notice. 



Power of ma- 
jority to grant 
certificates. 



Applicant may 
elect to take 
one-half the 
subjects at 
each of two 
regular ex- 
aminations. 



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Uniform 
system of 
examination. 



Disposition of 
fees. 



What and how 
many certifi- 
cates may be 
granted. 



Valid from 

September 

following. 



Five and eight 
year certifi- 
cates; how 
renewed. 



How certifi- 
cates in force, 
renewed. 



Professional 
training re- 
quired of ap- 
plicants for 
one-year and 
three-year cer- 
tificates. 



fund a fee of fifty cents. Applicants taking the examina- 
tion in two parts shall make on the date when each part is 
taken an application accompanied with a fee of fifty cents. 
Sec. 7819. The questions for all county teachers' ex- 
aminations shall be prepared and printed under the direc- 
tion of the superintendent of public instruction. A suf- 
ficient number of lists shall be sent, under seal, to the clerks 
of such boards of examiners not less than five days before 
each examination, such seal to be broken at the time of' 
the examination at which they are to be used, in the 
presence of the applicants and a majority of the members 
of the examining board. 

Sec. 7820. The clerk of the board of county school 
examiners shall promptly collect all fees from applicants 
at each examination and pay them into the county treasury 
monthly. He shall file with the county auditor a written 
statement of the amount, and the number of applicants, 
male and female, examined during the month. All money 
thus received, shall be set apart by the auditor to the credit 
of the county board of education fund. 

Sec. 7821. County boards of school examiners may 
grant teachers' certificates for one year and three years 
which shall be valid in all village, and rural school dis- 
tricts of the county wherein they are issued. Not more 
than three one-year certificates and not more than one 
three-year certificate may be issued to any one person. 
Such three-year certificate may be renewed twice only on 
proof of successful teaching. 

Such certificate shall be valid for one year and three 
years respectively from the first day of September follow- 
ing the day of the examination. 

Sec. 7821-1. All five-year and eight-year certificates 
now granted shall continue in force until the end of their 
terms and shall be renewed by the superintendent of public 
instruction upon proof that the holders thereof have taught 
successfully until the time of each renewal. Each appli- 
cation for renewal shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty 
cents and shall be filed in the ofiice of the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

Sec. 7821-2. All two-year and three-year primary, 
elementary and high school certificates now granted shall 
continue in force until the end of their terms and may be 
renewed by the county boards of examiners on proof of. 
five years' successful teaching experience. 

Sec. 7822.. Applicants for a one-year or a three-year 
elementary certificate shall possess an amount of profes- 
sional training not less than the following: 

1. On and after Janury ist, 191 5, not less than six 
weeks of class room instruction in a recognied institution 
for the training of teachers. 

2. On and after January ist, 1916, not less than 
twelve weeks of class room instruction, in a recognized in- 
stitution for the training of teachers. 



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3- On and after January ist, 191 7, not less than 
eighteen weeks of class room instruction in a recognized 
institution for the training of teachers. 

4. On and after January ist, 1918, not less than 
twenty-four weeks of class room instruction in a recognized 
institution for the training of teachers. 

5. On and after January ist, 19 19, not less than thirty 
weeks of class room instruction in a recognized institution 
for the training of teachers. 

6. On and after January ist, 1920, and thereafter 
not less than one year of class room instruction in a recog- 
nized institution for the training of teachers. 

Sec. 7822-1. On and after January first, 1915, all 
applicants for a one-year or a three-year elementary cer- 
tificate shall have had at least one year's training in an 
approved high school or its equivalent and on and after 
January first, 1920, all applicants for such certificate shall 
have had at least two years' training in an approved high 
school or its equivalent. 

Sec. 7823. Applicants for a one-year or a three-year 
high school or special certificate shall possess qualifications 
in professional training as follows : 

1. On and after January ist, 191 5, not less than six 
weeks of class room instruction in a recognized school for 
the training of teachers. 

2. On and after January ist, 1916, not less than 
twelve weeks of class room instruction in a recognized 
school for the training of teachers. 

3. On and after January ist, 1917, not less than 
eighteen weeks of class room instruction in a recognized 
school for the training of teachers. 

4. On and after January ist, 1918, not less than 
twenty-four weeks of class room instruction in a recog- 
nized school for the training of teachers. 

5. On and after January ist, 1919, not less than 
thirty weeks of class room instruction in a recognized 
school for the training of teachers. 

6. On and after January ist, 1920, and thereafter not 
less than one year of class room instruction in a recognized 
school for the training of teachers. 

Sec. 7823-1. On and after January first, 1915, all 
applicants for a one-year or a three-year high school or 
special certificate shall have had at least two years' train- 
ing in an approved high school, or its equivalent, and on 
and after January first, 1920, all applicants for high school 
and special certificates shall have certificates of graduation 
from a first grade high school or its equivalent. 

Sec. 7825. Every applicant for a teacher's certificate 
shall be required to take in addition to the written ex- 
amination, to test academic and professional knowledge, a 
practical test in actual teaching. Such test shall be made 
at any time during the preceding year or before the appli- 
cant receives his certificate, by a member of the board of 
examiners, a local supervisor, a teacher of method or any 



Training re- 
quired after 
Jan. 1, 1915, 
and Jan. 1, 
1920. 



Professional 
training re- 
quired of ap- 
plicants for 
one-year or _ 
three-year high 
high school or 
special cer- 
tificate. 



Training re- 
quired after 
Jan. 1, 1915, 
and after 
Jan. 1, 1920. 



Additional 
test to writ- 
ten examina- 
tion. When 
and by whom 
made. 



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Elementary 

certificate; 

branches. 



High school 
certificate; 

branches. 



Teachers' 
special cer- 
tificates. 



Teachers' 

emergenccy 

certificates. 



other competent person authorized by the county board of 
school examiners to make such test. Apphcants without 
previous teaching experience may be given such class room 
test in the practice department of any recognized summer 
school. The test shall include three subjects of instruc- 
tion unless the applicant desires a special certificate in 
which case three separate tests shall be given in the desired 
subject. Each applicant shall make a satisfactory showing 
in both written and practical tests. The superintendent of 
public instruction shall prescribe the forms for such 
examination. 

Sec. 7830. No person shall be employed or enter upon 
the performance of his duties as a teacher in any ele- 
mentary school supported wholly or in part by the state in 
any village, or rural school district who has not obtained 
from a board of school examiners having legal jurisdiction 
a certificate of good moral character; that he or she is 
qualified to teach orthography, reading, v/riting, arithmetic, 
English grammar and composition, geography, history of 
the United States, physiology, including narcotics, literature 
and elementary agriculture, and that he or she possesses an 
adequate knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching. 

Sec. 7831. No person shall be employed or enter upon 
the performance of his duties as a teacher in any recognized 
high school supported wholly or in part by the state in any 
village, or rural school district, or act as a superintendent 
of schools in such district, who has not obtained from a 
board of examiners having legal jurisdiction a certificate of 
good moral character; that he or she is qualified to teach 
six branches or more selected from the following course of 
study: (three of which branches shall be algebra, rhetoric 
and physics) : Literature, general history, algebra, physics, 
physiology, including narcotics, Latin, German, rhetoric, 
civil government, geometry, physical geography, botany and 
chemistry, and high school agriculture ; and that he or she 
possesses an adequate knowledge of the theory and practice 
of teaching. 

Sec. 7832. No person shall be employed and enter 
upon the performance of his duties as a special teacher of 
music, drawing, painting, penmanship, gymnastics, Ger- 
man, French, Spanish, the commercial and industrial 
branches, or any one of them, in any elementary or high 
school supported wholly or in part by the state in any 
city, village, or rural school district, who has not obtained 
from a board of examiners having legal jurisdiction a cer- 
tificate of good moral character that he or she is qualified 
to teach the special branch or branches of study, and, in 
addition thereto, possesses an adequate knowledge of the 
theory and practice of teaching. 

Sec. 7832-1. A "teacher's emergency certificate" 
which shall be valid for one year in any village or rural 
school district in the county may be granted by the county 
board of school examiners with the approval of the superin- 
tendent of public instruction to applicants who have had 



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one year s expeneiiLe teaching in the pubHc schools when- 
ever for any reason there is a shortage of teachers in such 
district. 

Sec. 7832-2. The county board of school examiners 
may at their discretion grant one year certificates to teach- 
ers who have completed a one year normal course in any 
high school or normal school which has been approved by 
the superintendent of public instruction. Such certificates 
shall be valid in any village or rural school district in the 
county in which it is granted and may be renewed for one 
or three years without examination. 

Sec. 7832-3. The county board of school examiners 
shall grant one-year certificates to graduates of first grade 
high schools who have completed in addition to the high 
school a one-year professional course in any high school or 
normal school which has been approved by the superinten- 
dent of public instruction. 

Sec. 7834. Each member of the county board of school 
examiners, except the clerk thereof shall receive ten dollars 
for each examination of fifty applicants or less, fourteen 
dollars for each examinatoon of more than fifty applicants 
and less than one hundred, eighteen dollars for each exam- 
ination of one hundred applicants and less than one hun- 
dred and fifty, twenty-two dollars for each examination of 
one hundred and fifty applicants and less than two hundred, 
and four dollars for each additional fifty applicants, or 
fraction thereof, to be paid out of the county treasury on 
the order of the county auditor. 'Books, blanks and station- 
ery required by the board of examiners shall be furnished 
by the county board of education. 

Sec. 7835. Such board may contract for the use of 
suitable rooms in which to conduct examinations, may 
procure fuel and light, and employ janitors, to take charge 
of the rooms and keep them in order. Expenses so in- 
curred, shall be paid out of the county treasury on orders 
of the county auditor, who shall issue them upon the 
certificate of the president of the board, counter-signed by 
the clerk. 

Sec. 7836. On or before the first day of September in 
each year, the clerk of such board shall prepare, and for- 
ward to the superintendent of public instruction, a state- 
ment of the numl^er of examinations held by the board, the 
number of applicants examined, the total number of cer- 
tificates granted, and the number for each term mentioned 
in this chapter, the amount of fees received and paid to 
the county treasurer, the amounts received from the county 
treasury by the members of the l^oard for their services, 
with such other statistics and information in relation to the 
duties of the board as such superintendent requires. He 
shall also deposit with the county auditor a bond, with 
surety to be approved by the auditor, in the sum of three 
hundred dollars, that he will pay into the county treasury, 
monthly, the examination fees received by the board, and 
make tlie statistical returns required by this chapter. 



Teachers hav- 
ing one year 
normal course 
may be grantei 
one year cer- 
tificates. 



Graduates of 
first grade 
high school 
may be 
granted one 
year cer- 
tificates. 



Compensation 
of exam- 
iners. 



Expenses of 
board. 



Annual report 
of clerk; 
bond. 



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No additional 
compensation 
as clerk. 



City board of 
school exam- 
iners. 

Appointment, 
term. 



Removal and 
vacancies. 



Certificates for 
one year and 
three years. 



Certificates 
for five and 
eight years; 
renewals. 



Renewal of 
two and tkree 
year cer- 
tificates. 



Certificates 
may be issued 
without formal 
examinations. 



Duties of 
clerk of city 
board of 
school exam- 



Sec. 7837. The county superintendent shall receive no 
additional compensation for his services as clerk of the 
county board of school examiners. 

Sec. 7838. There shall be a city board of school ex- 
aminers for each city school district. Such board shall 
consist of the city superintendent of schools and two other 
competent teachers serving- full time in the day schools 
of such city to be appointed by the city board of educa- 
tion. The term of office of such examiners shall be two 
years each, one to be appointed each year ; and shall expire 
on the thirty-first day of August. 

Sec. 7839. The board of education may revoke any 
appointment upon satisfactory proof that the appointee is 
inefficient, intemperate, negligent, or guilty of immoral con- 
duct. When a vacancy occurs in the board, whether from 
expiration of term of office, refusal to serve, or other 
cause, the board shall fill it by appointment for the full or 
unexpired term, as the case demands. Within ten days 
after an appointment, the clerk of the board shall report 
to the superintendent of public instruction the name of 
the appointee, and whether the appointment is for a full 
or an unexpired term. 

Sec. 7844. Each city board of school examiners may 
grant teachers' certificates for one year and three years 
from the first day of September following the examination, 
which shall be valid within the district wherein they are 
issued. But certificates granted for one year or three years 
must be regarded as provisional certificates and shall be 
renewed only twice each. 

Sec. 7845. All five-year and eight-year certificates 
now granted shall continue in force until the end of their 
terms and shall be renewed by the superintendent of public 
instruction upon proof that the holders thereof have taught 
successfully until the time of each renewal. Each applica- 
tion for renewal shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty 
cents and shall be filed in the office of the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

Sec. 7846. All tv/o-year and three-year primary, ele- 
mentary and high school certificates now granted shall con- 
tinue in force until the end of their terms and may be 
renewed by the city boards of examiners on proof of five 
years successful teaching experience. 

Sec. 7847. County and city boards of school examin- 
ers at their discretion may issue certificates without formal 
examinations to holders of certificates granted by other city 
and county boards of school examiners. 

Sec. 7854. The clerk of the city board of school ex- 
aminers shall keep a record of its proceedings, and such 
statistics as the superintendent of public instruction re- 
quires, in the form and manner he requires, and report 
such statistics to him annually, on or before the first day 
of September. 



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Sec. 7855. Such clerk shall pay the examination fees Disposition 
received by him to the treasurer of the district within ten of^examination 
days after each meeting, and at the same time file with 
the clerk of the board of education a written statement of 
the amount, also a statement of the number of applicants, 
male and female, examined, the number of certificates 
granted, and for what terms. 

Sec. 7857. All manuscripts filed as answers to ques- Manuscripts 
tions shall be kept on file for sixty days by the members of shall be kept 
the examining board, it any applicant has cause to and days, 
does believe that he has been discriminated against and his 
manuscripts unfairly graded, he may review his manu- 
scripts with the member or members of the board having 
them in charge at any time within sixty days after his 
returns from the examination. If after such inspection and 
review, he is still of the opinion that the board will not Review, 
correct the error, if any, and issue his certificate, he may 
appeal his case to the superintendent of public instruction 
for final review. 

Sec. 7858. Every appeal from the board of examiners How appeal 
shall be in the form of an affidavit setting forth the facts ?^suit.^ ^''^"' 
as the applicant believes them and shall be accompanied by 
a fee of one dollar to cover the expenses incident to such 
appeal. Upon receipt of such affidavit and fee the superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall require the clerk of such 
board to procure and forward the manuscripts of such 
applicant, together with a full explanation of the reasons 
for the board's action. If upon examination of the 
manuscripts, and record the superintendent finds that the 
applicant was denied a certificate when one should have 
been granted him and has been discriminated against by 
the board, the superintendent shall order forthwith a cer- 
tificate to be issued of the date of the examination attended 
by the applicant, and he shall indicate the length of time 
such certificate shall i)e valid. If, upon inspection of the 
manuscript and reviewing the facts submitted, the super- 
intendent of public instruction concludes that no injustice 
has been done, he shall so notify the applicant and the 
clerk of the board of examiners. 

Section 2. That original sections 7805, 7806, 7807, Repeals. 
7808, 7740, 7810, 781 T, 7812, 7813, 7814, 7815, 7816, 7817. 
7818, 7819, 7820. 7821, 7822, 7821, 78^0, 78^1, 7832, 7832-1, 

7834, 7835, 7836, 7837, 7-^38, 7839, 78-14, 7845, 7846, 7847. 
7854, 7855, 7857, and 7858 and sections 7825. 7740, 7741, 
7848 and 7858-1 to 7858-7 inclusive be and the same are 
iiereby repealed. 



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Salary of 
teachers. 



School dis- 
tricts eligible 
to state aid. 



Number of 
school age re- 
quired to en- 
title district 
to state aid. 



(House Bill No. 15.) 

To amend sections 7595 and 7597 of the General Code and add 
supplementary section 7595-1, relating to the salaries of teach- 
ers and aid to weak school districts. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That sections 7595 and 7597 of the Gen- 
eral Code be amended and supplementary section 7595-1 
be added to read as follows : 

Sec. 7595. No person shall be employed to teach in 
any public school in Ohio for less than forty dollars a 
month. When a school district has not sufficient money to 
pay its teachers such salaries as are provided in section 
7595-1, for eight months of the year, after the board of 
education of such district has made the maximum legal 
school levy, three-fourths of which shall be for the tuition 
fund, then such school district may receive from the state 
treasurer sufficient money to make up the deficiency. 

Sec. 7595-1. Only such school districts shall be eligi- 
ble to receive state aid which pay salaries as follows : 

(i) Elementary teachers without previous teaching 
experience in the state and with no professional training, 
forty dollars per month. 

(2) Elementary teachers having at least six weeks 
professional training, forty-five dollars per month. 

(3) Elementary teachers who have completed the 
full two years course in any normal school, teachers' col- 
lege, college or university approved by the superintendent 
of public instruction, fifty-five dollars per month. 

(4) High school teachers seventy dollars per month. 
Sec. 7597. No district shall be entitled to state aid 

as provided in sections 7595, 7595-1 and 7596 unless the 
number of persons of school age in such district is at least 
twenty times the number of teachers employed therein, and 
the schools in such district are maintained at least eight 
months of the year. 

Section 2. That original sections 7595 and 7597 be 
and the same are hereby repealed. 



Annual divi- 
sion of rents 
of school 
lands. 



(House Bill No. 16.) 

To amend sections 3203, 3204, 4763, 4782, 4784, 7582, 7600, 7602, 
and 7802 of the General Code, relating to school district funds. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That sections 3203, 3204, 4763, 4782, 4784, 
7582, 7600, 7602 and 7802 of the General Code be amended 
to read as follows : 

Sec. 3203. When, after the payment of just claims 
and necessary expenses, there is money in the hands of the 
treasurer arising from the rents of school lands, at least 
once a year, the trustees shall meet at the office or residence 
of the treasurer, and make a dividend thereof among the 



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several school districts, or parts of districts within the 
original township, on the basis of thirty dollars for each 
teacher, and the balance according to the average daily at- 
tendance in the schools of such districts, and upon the order 
of the trustees, the treasurer shall pay out such money. 

Sec. 3204. The clerk of the board of education of 
any district which, in whole or in part, is composed of ter- 
ritory within the bounds of an original township incor- 
porated as herein provided, shall, on demand of the clerk 
of such township, furnish him a certified copy of the re- 
port of the number of teachers employed and the average 
daily attendance of pupils in the schools within the bounds 
of such original township in such school districts, and the 
dividend shall be made on the basis of such certified re- 
port. 

Sec. 4763. In each city school district, the treasurer 
of the city funds shall be the treasurer of the school funds. 
In all village and rural school districts which do not pro- 
vide legal depositories as provided in sections 7604 to 7608 
inclusive, the county treasurer shall be the treasurer of the 
school funds of such districts. 

Sec. 4782. When a depository has been provided for 
the school moneys of a district, as authorized by law, the 
board of education of the district, by resolution adopted by 
a vote of a majority of its members, shall dispense with a 
treasurer of the school moneys, belonging to such school 
district. In such case, the clerk of the board of education 
of a district shall perform all the services, discharge all the 
duties and be subject to all the obligations required by law 
of the treasurer of such school districts. 

Sec. 4784. If for any reason, a depository in sucli 
district ceases to act as custodian of the school moneys 
they shall be placed in the custody of the treasurer of the 
city or county in which the school district is located as pro- 
vided in section 4763. Such moneys shall be held and dis- 
bursed by the treasurer in all respects as required by law 
until another depository is provided for such moneys. 
Thereupon he shall place such money in the depository and 
his duties and obligations relating thereto shall then cease. 

Sec. 7582. The auditor of state shall apportion the 
state common school fund to the several counties of the 
state semi-annually, upon the basis of the enumeration of 
youth therein, as shown by the latest abstract of enumera- 
tion transmitted to him by the superintendent of public 
instruction. Before making his February settlement with 
county treasurers, he shall apportion such amount thereof 
as he estimates to have been collected up to that time, and, 
in the settlement sheet which he transmits to the auditor of 
each county, shall certify the amount payable to the treas- 
urer of his county. Before making his final settlement with 
county treasurers each year he shall apportion the re- 
mainder of the whole fund collected, as nearly as it can be 
ascertained, and in the August settlement sheet which he 



Clerk of the 
board shall 
furnish cer- 
tified report of 
number of 
teachers and 
average daily 
atendance. 



Treasurer of 
the school 
funds. 



When treas- 
urer of 
school funds 
may be dis- 
pensed with. 



Where moneys 
placed when 
depository 
ceases to act. 



Apportionment 
of school funds 
by auditor of 
state. 



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Apportionment 
of school funds 
by county 
auditor. 



Apportionment 
when county 
line divides 
original sur- 
veyed town- 
ship. 



District not 
entitled to 
school funds 
when enumera- 
tion not 
taken. Lia- 
bility of clerk. 



transmits to the auditor of each county shall certify the 
amount payable to the treasurer of his county. 

Sec. 7600. After each annual settlement with the 
county treasurer, each county auditor shall immediately 
apportion school funds for his county. The state common 
school funds shall be apportioned as follows : 

Each school district within the county shall receive 
thirty dollars for each teacher employed in such district, 
and the balance of such funds shall be apportioned among 
the various school districts according to the average daily 
attendance of pupils in the schools of such districts. If an 
enumeration of the youth of any district has not been taken 
and returned for any year and the average daily attendance 
of such district has not been certified to the county auditor 
such district shall not be entitled to receive any portion of 
that fund. The local school tax collected from the several 
districts shall be paid to the districts from which it was 
collected. Money received from the state on account of 
interest on the common school fund shall be apportioned 
to the school districts and parts of districts within the ter- 
ritory designated by the auditor of state as entitled thereto 
on he basis of thirty dollars for each teacher employed and 
the balance according to the average daily attendance. All 
other money in the county treasury for the support of com- 
mon schools and not otherwise appropriated by law, shall 
be apportioned annually in the same manner as the state 
common school fund. 

Sec. 7602. When an original surveyed township or 
fractional township is situated in two or more counties, 
and the land granted thereto by congress for the support of 
public schools has been sold, the auditor of the county to 
whose treasurer the interest on the proceeds- of such sale 
is paid must apportion such interest to the counties in 
which such township is situated in proportion to the youth 
of the township enumerated in each. Such auditor shall 
certify to the auditor of each of the other counties the 
amount so ascertained to belong to the part of the town- 
ship situated in his county, and transmit to the treasurer of 
each of such counties an order on the treasurer of his own 
county for such amount. The auditor of each county shall 
. apportion the amount of such interest belonging to the part 
of the township in his county, to the districts or parts of 
districts entitled thereto as is provided for the apportion- 
ment of the state common school funds in section 7600, 
and certify and pay it to the proper school officers, as pro- 
vided in section 7601. 

Sec. 7802. If an enumeration of the youth of a dis- 
trict be not taken and returned in any year, such district 
shall not be entitled to receive any part of the school funds 
distributable in that year. If such loss to a district occurs 
through the failure of the clerk of the board of education of 
a district to perform the duty required of him under section 
seventy-seven hundred and ninety-nine, he shall be liable 
to the district for the loss, which may be recovered in an 



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action in the name of the state. The money so recovered 
shall be paid into the county treasury, and apportioned as 
the school funds so lost would have been apportioned. 

Section 2. That original sections 3203, 3204, 4763, 
4782, 4784, 7582, 7600, 7602 and 7802 of the General Code 
be and the same are hereby repealed. 



Repeals. 



(House Bill No. 24.) 

To amend sections 7868 and 7869 of the General Code and to add 
supplemental sections 7654-1, 7654-2, 7654-3, 7654-4, 7654-5, 
7654-6, 7654-7, and 7868-1 of the General Code relating to the 
training of teachers for village and rural schools. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That sections 7860, 7865, 7868, 7869, 7870 
and 7873 of the General Code be amended and supplemental 
sections 7654-1, 7654-2, 7654-3. 7654-4, 7654-5- 7654-6, 7654- 
7 and 7868-1 be added to read as follows: 

Sec. 7654-1. Boards of education which maintain first 
grade high schools in village or rural districts may establish 
normal departments in such schools for the training of 
teachers for village and rural schools. Not more than three 
such normal schools shall be established in any one county 
school district, and not more than one such department shall 
be maintained in any village or rural district. At least one 
such school in each county shall be located in a rural district 
or in a village with less than 1,500 population, and not 
more than one such school in each county shall be located 
in a village having a population of 1,500 or more. Schools 
desiring such a department shall make application therefor 
to the superintendent of public instruction and a copy of 
such application shall be filed with the county superintend- 
ent. The superintendent of public instruction shall examine 
all applications and shall designate such schools as may 
establish such departments. 

Sec. 7654-2. Each high school normal department shall 
offer at least a one-year course for the training of teachers. 
The entrance requirements of such departments shall be 
fixed by the superintendent of public instruction. Such 
departments may offer short courses during the school year 
but shall not offer summer courses unless practice depart- 
ments are maintained during such courses. 

Sec. 7654-3. Each normal department* shall employ a 
director and such other instructors as the superintendent 
of public instruction may prescribe. Such director and in- 
structors shall be employed on the nomination of the county 
superintendent. No director or instructor in any normal 
training department shall be paid less than seventy-five 
dollars per month. 

Sec. 7654-4. Each normal department may maintain 
a practice division and shall be authorized to arrange with 
different boards of education for observation and practice 



Rural first 
grade high 
schools may 
establish nor 
mal depart- 
ments for 
training of 
teachers. 
Wkere and 
how estab- 
lished. 



Courses and 
entrance re- 
quirements. 



Employment 
of director and 
instructors. 
Salaries. 



Practice divi 
sion may be 
maintained. 



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Board of edu- 
cation shall 
receive state 
aid not to ex- 
ceed $1,000. 



Department of 
efficiency tests 
and survey by 
O. S. U. and 
other schools 
and colleges 
supported by 
the state. 



State normal 
schools author- 
ized to main- 
tain a model 
one room rural 
school in cer- 
tain districts. 
State aid. 



Election of 
officers; no- 
notice; ex- 
pense. 



Report by 
county super- 
intendent. 



teaching privilege in the rural schools under their con- 
trol. 

Sec. 7654-5. The board of education in any village or 
rural school district which maintains a normal training de- 
partment approved by the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall receive from the state, the cost of maintaining 
such department in a sum not to exceed one thousand dol- 
lars per annum for each school so maintained. Such 
amount shall be allowed by the auditor of state upon the 
approval of the superintendent of public instruction, but 
no payment by the state shall be made for work in such 
schools prior to January i, 1915. 

Sec. 7654-6. There shall be established in the college 
of education of the Ohio State University and in each of 
the normal schools and colleges which are maintained either 
wholly or in part by state funds, a department of efficiency 
tests and survey. Such departments shall at the request 
of the superintendent of public instruction assist him in 
working out efficiency methods in school administration, 
and in conducting co-operative school surveys. 

Sec. 7654-7. Each of the state normal schools at 
Athens, Oxford, Bowling Green, and Kent shall be au- 
thorized to arrange with the boards of education of not 
more than six non-centralized rural districts to assume the 
management of a one one-room rural school in each dis- 
trict and maintain such schools as model one-room rural 
schools. Each state normal school which complies with the 
provisions of this section subject to the approval of the 
superintendent of public instruction shall receive $500 an- 
nually from the state for each of such schools when vouch- 
ers therefor have been approved by the superintendent of 
public instruction. 

Sec. 7860. The county teachers' institute, annually, 
shall elect by ballot, a president and a secretary. Such 
election of officers shall be held during the session of such 
institute and at a time fixed by the county board of educa- 
tion. At least three days' notice of the election shah be 
given the members of such institute by posting conspicu- 
ously in the room, where the institute is held a notice of the 
time and place of holding it, and the officers to be voted 
for. The expenses of conducting such institute shall be 
paid out of the county board of education fund upon the 
order of the president of the county board of education. 

Sec. 7865. ' Within five days after the adjournment of 
the institute, the county superintendent shall report to the 
superintendent of public instruction the number of teach- 
ers in attendance, the names of instructors and lecturers at- 
tending, the amount of money received and disbursed by 
the county board of education and such other information 
relating to the institute as the superintendent of public in- 
struction requires. 



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Sec. 7870. 
thorized by the 
education of all 
superintendents 



Sec. 7868. The teachers' institutes of each county 
shall be under the supervision of the county boards of educa- 
tion. Such boards shall decide by formal resolution at any 
regular or special meeting held prior to February ist of 
each year whether a county institute shall be held in the 
county during the current year. 

Sec. 7868-1. Each village and rural boards of educa- 
tion in counties in which no county institute has been held 
in any year shall pay ten dollars to each teacher employed 
by such board, who has attended for at least six weeks dur- 
ing such year, a recognized summer school for the training 
of teachers. 

Sec. 7869. All teachers and superintendents of the 
public schools within any county in which a county insti- 
tute is held while the schools are in session may dismiss 
their schools for the purpose of attending such institute. 

The county boards of education shall decide the length 
of time county institutes may remain in session, in no case 
for longer period than five days. At least one day of such 
session shall be under the immediate direction of the county 
superintendent who shall arrange the program for such 
day. 

When a teachers' institute has been au- 
county board of education the boards of 
school districts shall pay the teachers and 
of their respective districts their regular 
salary for the week they attend the institute upon the teach- 
ers or superintendents presenting certificates of full regular 
daily attendance, signed by the county superintendent. If 
the institute is held when the public schools are not in ses- 
sion, such teachers or superintendents shall be paid two 
dollars a day for actual daily attendance as certified by the 
county superintendent, for not more than five days of 
actual attendance, to be paid as an addition to the first 
month's salary after the institute, by the board of educa- 
tion by which such teacher or superintendent is then em- 
ployed. In case he or she is unemployed at the time of the 
institute, such salary shall be paid by the board next em- 
ploying such teacher or superintendent, if the term of em- 
ployment begins within three months after the institute 
closes. 

Sec. 7873. If the board of a district does not provide 
for such institute in any year, it shall cause the institute 
fund in the hands of the district treasurer for the year to 
be paid to the treasurer of the county wherein the district 
is situated, who shall place it to the credit of the county 
board of education fund. The teachers of the schools of 
such district in such case, shall be entitled to the advan- 
tages of the county institute, subject to the provisions of 
sections seventy-eight hundred and sixty-nine, and seventy- 
eight hundred and seventy. The clerk of the board shall 
make the report of the institute required by section 7874. 

Section 2. That original sections 7860, 7865, 7868, 
7869, 7870, 7873, and sections 7861, 7862, 7866 and 7867 of 
the General Code be and the same are hereby repealed. 



County board 
of education 
shall deter- 
mine whether 
institute shall 
be held. 



When boards 
of education 
shall pay 
teachers who 
attended 
summer school 



Teachers may 
dismiss school 
to attend in- 
stitute. 



Time institutes 
may remain 
in session. 



Pay for at- 
tending insti- 
tutes. 



When found 
in city dis- 
trict to be 
Caid into 
oard of edu- 
cation fund. 



"'epeals. 



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Appropriation 
for aid of 
weak school 
districts. 



(House Bill No. 31.) 

Relative to appropriating money for the assistance of weak 
school districts. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section i. That there be and is hereby appropriated 
from any moneys raised or coming into the state treasury 
for the support of the comomn schools and not otherwise 
appropriated, to assit in the maintenance of weak school 
districts, the balance of former appropriation and the sum 
of eighty-five thousand dollars which shall be distributed 
by the auditor of state in accordance with the provisions 
of the act passed April 2, 1906, as amended April 18, 1913. 



Levy for 
sinking fund 
and interest. 



Former bonds 
shall be legal. 



Repeal. 



Emergency, 
act. 



(House Bill No. 151.) 

To amend section 5649-1 of the General Code and to supplement 
the same by the enactment of a supplementary section to be 
known as 5649-la, relating to levies for sinking fund and in- 
terest purposes. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section i. That section 5649-1 of the General Code 
be amended and that it be supplemented by the enactment 
of a supplementary section to be known as section 5649-ia, 
to read as follows : 

Sec. 5649-1. In any taxing district, the taxing author- 
ity shall, within the limitations now prescribed by law, 
levy a tax sufficient to provide for sinking fund and interest 
purposes for all bonds issued by any political subdivision, 
which tax shall be placed before and in preference to all 
other items, and for the full amount thereof. 

Sec. 5649-ia. All bonds heretofore issued by any 
political subdivision for a lawful purpose which have been 
sold for not less than par and accrued interest and the pro- 
ceeds thereof paid into the treasury, shall be held to be 
legal, valid and binding obligations of the political sub- 
division issuing the same. 

Section 2. That said original section 5649-1 of the 
General Code be and the same is hereby repealed. 

Section 3. This act is hereby declared to be an 
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation 
of the public peace, health and safety. Such necessity 
arises from the fact that many public improvements are 
in the course of construction and can not be completed 
except by the isue of bonds; that by recent judicial con- 
struction a doubt has arisen about power to issue bonds 
which would cause delay in the completion of said public 
improvements, which completion is necessary to the public 
health and safety. 



